Subdivision Wants To Ban Sex Offenders

WFTV ^ | August 12, 2011

[Slings and Arrows]

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- Residents in an exclusive west Orange County subdivision want to ban registered sex offenders from moving in.

State law requires convicted sex offenders to live at least 1,000 feet from schools or playgrounds, but residents in the Keene's Pointe gated community in Windermere said they want to bump that up to 2,500 feet.

A rule like that would keep any sex offender from moving into the subdivision.

"Everybody wants this to be as safe a place as possible to raise their kids and they all recognize that this is one of the ways to do that," said HOA President Russ Blackwell.

The idea came about when residents learned that their neighbor was a registered sex offender.

The ban would apply to future residents.

[Cowboy Bob]

Residents in an exclusive west Orange County subdivision...

What's the point of living in an exclusive subdivision if you can't exclude people you don't want living there?

[Oiao]

The subtle point here is that most Male Law Enforcement Officer will cut a woman a break on a woman squatting (not even cite her) to be chivalrous where they will go a writing a citation on a male who has to, um, ‘pull it out’ to do the same thing.

It is a double standard, which often leads to the DA pressing the hardest minor or felony charge they can win, on a minor citation, so that the DA’s numbers look great!

You don't understand the ‘system’.

[ARepublicanForAllReasons]

OK, but why should pi**ing in an already filthy parking lot be a sex offense that brands a person for life?
You could dump the entire contents of a urinal out the second-story window right on you neighbors head and not be branded a sex offender, though you would be in plenty of trouble both civil and criminal for violating sanitation laws, and perhaps assault. PIAPL bears no resemblance to coaxing children into your car with candy.

And as for pi**ing in the forest, I thought that's what trees were for?

[baa39]

I agree, especially if no one was around. That is quite different than deliberately exposing himself to women walking to their cars or that sort of thing.

Maybe the laws themselves in this area need more fine-tuning and clear definitions.

[baa39]

Wow, I sure don’t. Didn’t realize there was so much tinkling in public going on, by men or women, or that the cops were so fascinated with it.

[Oiao]

So, now that this thread has been set off to the yonder, I still do not agree that a small exclusive HOA can try to set the FL state rules!

This is unDemocratic.

I ask my original question in my first post. Is this small exclusive community of strictly Democratic Party voting? Sounds like it to me.

[baa39]

The issue may be that a state law cannot be changed by an HOA. The state law overrides any rule they would make, whether it’s favorable or unfavorable to the resident in question.

Just like with building codes, the HOA might want to allow something or prohibit something for new homes, but I believe the County Codes are what a builder is beholden to.

Well, it’s been fun, but I’ve got to go take a leak...tee hee hee!

[Oiao]

Denial is a river in Egypt.

They are trying to enforce a state wide ban to settle a small need for the exclusive community they live in.

Cute response but you are admitting you do not understand.

Best to you. Regards and Semper Fi.

[Slings and Arrows]

Hmmm...sounds like it could go either way, depending on the composition of the court.

[Slings and Arrows]

And as for pi**ing in the forest, I thought that's what trees were for?

My late Jack Russell Terrier would have agreed wholeheartedly.

[Oiao]

LOL! As also for my last couple of ‘teams’ trained to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States of America!

But the Terriers are a little more heartfelt in this discussion.

Why do some people just don’t get liberty?

[cynwoody]

Sex offender registries cannot be relied upon (thanks to the state that sends those two RINO c*nts to the Senate).

[PeteB570]

We had one that moved into our neighborhood.

My wife printed out his sheet from the sex offender site, printed out a number of copies and then went door to door knocking on every door and handing them one.

He moved shortly after.

[ARepublicanForAllReasons]

PING! for you informative post. This is clearly not a simple problem.

And now for some late night reading (Bernard Cornwell).

ARFAR signing off.

[Nickname]

I’m also a woman but I don’t share your lack of sympathy. Gross, yeah.

Putting him on a sex offender registry for it? No. Wrong. Cruel, even.

[TChad]

Thanks for your link to that appalling article.

Why do I have to learn so much about America from the British press?

[Slings and Arrows]

Interesting. As others have pointed out, a drunken leak in an alley could get you listed next to genuine kiddy-diddler.

[Slings and Arrows]

The only problem some people have with tyranny is that they’re not the tyrant.

[Leroy S. Mort]

Hah! Tiger Woods has a home in Windermere.How ironic is that? Maybe the residents should just run the pervs off with a driver.

[Slings and Arrows]

I dunno - Tiger isn’t hitting much these days.