VIDEO: Volusia County Council Considering Banishment Ordinances for People on the Sex Offender Registry
The Volusia County Council members were considering drafting an ordinance that would expand the state’s residency restriction requirement from 1000 feet to 1500 feet for all people on the sex offender registry. Additionally, they wanted an ordinance that would make it illegal for any adult who was unaccompanied by a minor to enter a county playground area.
Fortunately, there were members of the council who preferred to listen to sound judgment rather than unmerited hysteria on parts of the proposed ordinances. Some council members expressed concern for unintended consequences and questioning if there was a need for such ordinances.
Unfortunately, though, the council did vote to proceed in the drafting of an ordinance that would expand the residency restrictions for those labeled as a predator to 1500 feet in the unincorporated parts of the county.
Watch the video below or on YouTube.
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Not sure making people move retroactively would hold up in the supreme court. That would 10,000% be punishment and any judge who disagrees should be disbarred and undergo a mental health evaluation. I am not kidding, just because you do not like us, you still have to do your job. If you are a judge and cannot uphold the law regardless of your feelings, you need to find another profession like working at Starbucks.
Retroactively kicking people out of their home for something that was done in the past, and for some decades ago should cause every council member to be removed. Most of us are not even on paper anymore.
Florida is the battle ground State where they ( the State) and us ( the banished) fight it out. They want us to never be ” free” from persecution and punishment and if they can’t keep us in Prison, then they will force us out ( not in my neighborhood) by any means. And they will try to drive them all out until we can’t and don’t have a chance or a choice. Those who feel ” safe ” in other States or counties remember one thing that was talked about..” it’s working in other states”.
Well what I saw was one there was a board member who had experience and knowledge of these situations and the fortitude to speak up and a chairman who allowed the conversation to be discussed to the extent possible. Even though one member was completely drunk on the cool aid he’d been served. If it hadn’t been for the one who had been a Judge there would have been a completely different outcome. But even in spite of that they agreed to move forward with regulations they saw as useless because any sexual predator that was a danger and was known of was in prison. So as mentioned it’s just feel good legislation with no examples of a need for it.
I will be 71, birthday upcoming.
I have lived away from Florida since my release with my sister and her family since my release, (7) seven years ago: I re-register every 3 months.
I agreed to leave Florida because my sister expressed several reasons; 1) Florida is a restrictive state, becoming more so each day, 2) the state I (she has) lived in has a way (method) to make you free. 3) F**k my husband, his ways.
Maryland has failed, Florida has not. My sentence was enhanced almost six years for a crime I pled guilty to & turned myself in-for over 10 years prior to the DUI charge current.Why am I not surprised?
I am astounded at the rational discussion and fact based procedure. It can happen and it can be fruitful.
I’m so glad I moved out of Florida. Now I’m free.