Posted on 10/26/2014 2:57:02 PM PDT by therightliveswithus
The ACLU has filed a lawsuit that asks for a permanent injunction against a Miami-Dade ordinance that states that sex offenders are not allowed to live within approximately half a mile, or 2,500 feet, of a school. The suit was filed this week.
The suit, Doe, et al. v. Miami-Dade County, et al., argues that the ordinance puts undue pressure on sex offenders and pedophiles, forcing them to likely become homeless because of the law.
The lawsuit alleges that "The law prohibits former offenders from living 2,500 feet (almost half a mile) from any building the county labels a "school," a category the county has enforced arbitrarily since the ordinance went into effect in 2010. This restriction has left about fifty former offenders with nowhere to live other than an outdoor area along railroad tracks on the outskirts of Miami-Dade county."
Because of this, the former felons have "no drinkable water and no shelter from the weather; people sleep in chairs and small tents, and under tarps."
Why these people cannot live anywhere other than near railroad tracks, the ACLU does not say. The ordinance went into effect in 2010, and was intended to protect children from sexual predators living near by. Preventing pedophiles from living near children has unintended consequences, the suit claims.
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My God, when will it stop??
Cut their nuts off first.
The American Criminal Liberties Union at it's worst.
I believe there are many places in that county that are farther than 2500 feet from a school.
Time the ACLU to meet a most ugly demise.
The states have never amended the Constitution to expressly protect sexual offenders. So the states are free to make laws which discriminate against such people, as long as such laws don’t unreasonably abridge constitutionally enumerated protections.
Probably because all available rental housing (apartments) is within some school zone. Perhaps an offender could buy a small farm, or a similar house far from the city, but that is cost-prohibitive to pretty much all of those who are fresh from prison.
As it is now, the tag of a sex offender pretty much reduces the person to the caste of untouchables - those who cannot live in most places, those who won't be hired, those who won't be trusted. To make matters worse, the tag can be given for a minor offense that has little to do with sex. For example:
One of those Colorado residents had been accused of trying to hug a girl at his elementary school too much when he was 13.
Too much? When he was 13?
Lots of people are copping serious 'sex offense' charges if they pee when there's no bathroom nearby. That's not really a 'sex offense', it's an 'offense of annoyance'. But they get lumped in too.
See, the government has gone crazy in the last few years. If the ACLU is trying to make it okay for child molesters to live near schools, that's one thing. If they are trying to stop some of the government overreach, that's another.
Locate ALL of the ACLU lawyers home addresses... purchase homes in their neighborhoods... rent out the homes to these pedophiles.
Live near schools?!?! Not without PHYSICAL, and NOT chemical castration, first. Having a ‘member’ is not a Constitutional right.
How many sex offenders are there in the ACLU?
Make it 5 miles and let’s start executing some of them besides.
American Communist Lawyers Ass.
Pray America wakes
Rapist and pedophiles belong on the list and should be restricted. It's gotten so far out of hand likely 50% in some states do not belong on a sex offender list. Save the list for the dangerous offenders a true threat to society is all I'm saying. For them yes there should be such prohibitions. The standards for being placed on the list got lowered as a result a parent can't tell who is an actual pervert on the registries and who was a roadside wizzer, hormonal teenager, etc. The registries as they stand today may well be overturned unfortunately.
There is a school inside Lompoc Federal Penitentiary. Let them live there.
I’ll compromise a little on this one.
Only if parents are allow open carry.
It keeps some folks on there best behavior.
I appreciate both sides here...nobody wants them around schools and children. But the opposite side is if they have filled their debt to society in full then they should be able to live anywhere they please.
I don’t like these sex offender registries, and so forth. They are anti-liberty. I see the necessity of them, but this sort of thing is over done.
The 28 year old male who sodomizes a 13 year old boy deserves death. The 41 year old man who rapes a 14 year old girl is a degenerate and deserves death. But the 16 year old boy who is charged with SR because of his 15 year old girlfriend ‘s parents is another thing entirely. Yet he is equally as bad as the 28 and 41 year old’s as well.
I don’t like the American Communist Lawyer’s Union because this is not about freedom for them...this is a battering ram against freedom when used by them.
I see that argument, too. But the article appears to want blanket protection. But yes, there are def folks on there who shouldn’t be..
I guess it depends on what is termed a sex offender. I have seen 18 years old who have had sex with 15 year olds called sex offenders.
I have seen violent rapists called sex offenders.
The “mild” cases? They need to be slapped on the hand and moved on, the violent cases, death penalty.
Those inbetween? Do you really think an extra 400 years is going to make a difference?
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