The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) recently challenged the constitutionality of a Miami-Dade County, Florida ordinance that, according to the organization, forces sex offenders on probation into homelessness by imposing residency restrictions so harsh there is literally no place where they are legally permitted to live. …
While that may indeed be outrageous, the federal district court hearing the challenge to the Miami-Dade ordinance did not find it unconstitutional. The court dismissed the suit in April 2015, finding the ordinance was not punitive in nature and advanced a legitimate governmental interest, and rejecting the ACLU’s procedural and substantive due process, ex post facto and vagueness claims. A motion for reconsideration was denied in June 2015, and the ACLU has since appealed the dismissal to the Eleventh Circuit. Full Article
I personally don’t have a lot of faith in the ACLU in this. Now they are appealing to the 11th circut. If they are shot down there will they appeal to SCOTUS? Or will they abondon are brothers and sisters in FL? I hope they win. I hope the 11th circut gives a ruling that opens the door to a class action suit against Miami-Dade co. Or better yet Ron Book. I don’t care what happened to his daughter, and no I’m not apologising for that attitude. That POS has treated Price Club members like animals for years.Instead of just punishing the babysitter. And should be sued out of house and home to go live under a bridge himself.
Ron Book needs to be sued, investigated and/or arrested for criminal harassment under the color of authority, along with those whom have giving him these powers, including the judges.
The residency restrictions in Miami-Dade County is not only for registered citizens currently on probation, but they are for registered citizens even when they finish probation(post probation sentence). For the rest of their lives for as long as they live in the county. There has to be some unconstitutional standing to that. There are homeless registered citizens in Miami-Dade that have been out of probation for years now.
Legitimate governmental interest? Making people live in squalor and disease, while denying them access to the things that reduce recidivism? How can spreading disease and ensuring future crime be a legitimate interest? Are these judges getting a kickback for their decision or is it just the chemicals in the water they drink destroying the brain? Sounds like some third world dictatorship, rather than a legitimate first world nation.