Update: Miami-Dade Encampment
Registrants are still at the Miami-Dade Encampment. Some, because their GPS monitoring will trigger if they leave the area (probation has them designated to) and they don’t want to violate probation and go back to prison for that. Others, because they realize there’s noplace for them to go and they will be violating the overnight camping ordinance wherever they are, so might as well stay put.
News crews are on site, waiting for enforcement action. This NBC6 video is from earlier this AM, where you can still see tents lined up.
Ultimately, some may simply wait to be arrested – a roof over their head, running water and a reprieve from the heat and mosquitoes, courtesy of the county jail sounds better than the inhuman conditions out there. Unfortunately for those on probation, that might include a return to prison. With no alternatives; they are screwed either way.
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Ron book and Lauren book and polygraph Jenks should be voted out of office those who vote don’t or won’t. I recommend those who can vote start by voting to remove city council members to state employees. I like to thank A.L.C.U getting involved with the homeless encampment.someone has to fight for those people. I wish someone like an attorney would see the sex offenders’ registry as a hate crime it was made to increase punishment towards a group of people for the purpose of banishment furthermore it allows private citizens to use it as a tool to serve their type of justice by attacking the person convicted of a sex crime this is double jeopardy punishment twice for same offense. The S.O. Registry falls under another hate crime because of the politics that come into play The politics are afraid to be voted out of office so they make silly laws based on the public outcry from angry people because of hostile and angry and dislike feeling towards a sex offender thus these laws being made are not to protect public but to inflict the hate upon them from the public hence hate crime called the Sex offender registry If I were an Attorney this is the course of action I would take 8th and 14th Amendments
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/steamed-clams-hold-nukes-at-bay-19770728
The Clamshell Alliance essentially doubled the cost of a nuclear power plant and held local government hostage in protest.
I couldn’t ask anyone to stay put and be arrested, but an influx of homeless indigent registrants into the county jail, needing public defenders, refusing pleas, not posting bonds, demanding medical care… I don’t know how prepared Miami-Dade is for that.
So many people forget that these are PEOPLE. They’re trapped by a situation the system has set up. Where do they go? What do they do? Homelessness or jail is hardly a choice. What a sick, sad choice.
Our liberties are once again hanging by a thread, and if you don’t believe that this bullied-threat and dehumanizing of this homeless population doesn’t concern or affect you, eventually it will; and in a big way.
Besides looked down-on, shunned, threatened, years in an ankle monitor as if an animal, some have even been murdered in prison or at a home (due to their address publicly-listed on the Florida registry as well as personal details of their family/life)…. all from a label. Federal and state laws (as well as local city ordinances) have alluded into creating more and more laws by “protecting children”…. As it is, our cities are approaching ‘police state’ now, and to which many are still clueless to. Then, there are ‘the many years’ of continually being told where, and where not to go, while zero empathy is voiced from within the community. Have you ever consider as a parent being unable to take your child to school, to a park or playground? Or after a serious medical procedure, banned from being admitted to a nursing or rehab facility? Florida lawmakers then apply the final pressure and stomp out what little dignity might be left as death nears and Hospice Care is unattainable. Years after being deceased, you’re photo is hauntingly still displayed. Our politicians believe the vast laws from over the last couple decades (allbacked by your tax-paying dollar) will create a safer environment. Have they really?
That is the sad choice that many homeless sex offenders face: go back to prison so you will at least have a roof over your head. I was in the same position last year up here in Michigan. None of the social agencies or charities would help. The only people who actually helped me were other registered sex offenders. Thank God for them. I was very close to suicide.
What a great decision by the judge not to enjoin!! This is now his fault as well. Whats his name again??
Jay, You sound like you’re up to something. LOL. But this is exactly what Ron book and all of them want. The news is there. Good! I say, they all should stay And let them be forced out and have it all on National Television. Then the world can see just how wonderful Florida is.