A Florida city’s sex-offender law faces scrutiny in litigation over whether a wheelchair-bound former doctor, convicted of patient abuse in the 1980s, should be forced out of a hospice due to its proximity to a school.
A Palm Beach County court petition filed Aug. 31 claims ____ ____, a hospice patient with end-stage Alzheimer’s disease, has been threatened with arrest if he does not move out of Heartland of Boynton Beach, a nursing home near a local preschool.
The City of Boynton Beach purportedly issued a notice to ____ and the hospice accusing them of violating an ordinance that prohibits sex offenders from living within 2,500 feet of a school, daycare center or playground.Full Article
Unbelievable. We don’t even have the right to die in peace?? Has Florida surrendered its humanity? 😟
(I guess registration extends beyond the “mortal coil”, never to be shuffled off.) 😟
The good news is that Florida will be under water at some point. The bad news is that “they” will have to move somewhere.
Given the sad state of constitutional affairs there, it might we wise to ban Flordians (or the ones who vote for these laws and elect officials that enact them) from entering other states without registering and then being subject to proximity laws ensuring they are not within 2,500 feet of US Citizens.
Sound crazy? They are the same fears and exaggerations the current registry laws are founded upon.
So now the hospice is violating a sex offender law? Wtf…
Yet another good example out of Florida of how this “purely regulatory scheme” protects the public from nothing and treats another citizen and his family inhumanely.
Threatening the Hospice legally for having him there is a new low though. I didn’t know Florida law extended punishments, I mean…regulations, to treatment facilities too.
This poor guy with Alzheimers won’t even know the difference between a jail cell and a hospice room. Boynton Beach should be this year’s winner for the most heartless city award
“His attorney, Cindy D’Agostino, wrote that she is confident she will be able to remove him from the Florida registry before he dies. A Florida statute allows some sex offenders to be removed from the registry 25 years after they have been “released from confinement, supervision, or sanction, whichever is later”
Fat chance! Once you’re on the registry in Floriduh, you’re on it for life. And this man probably will stay on it long after he is dead.
For those whom would like to respond to these den of wolves, here are their contact info. http://www.boynton-beach.org/contact.php We may want to put them on the wall of shame.
California and most states are no different. It’s almost impossible for a RC to find any kind of residential care facility that will accept anyone registered. Most states require that all residences of a care facility be notified of any RC living in the facility. And once notified, that care facility will face the real risk of their other patients being moved out by family members. So remember, don’t grow old.
plain and simple , this state should get ass hole of the month award , they would stand tall and chest out to get such an award ! and the winner of this award win’s a brand new 2×4 to their grill !, And free dabs for life !
I keep saying we need our own town and support structure. These laws will never go away till the people that write them are harmed by them.
The taxpayers of FL might take issue with a man who cannot wipe himself being sent to prison to die, the medical costs will be astronomical and I am confident his lawyer will ensure it stays in the media and that his care is monitored and then, when he ultimately dies, sue the state for poor care and neglect, drag them through the mud, and make it hurt, THEN ensure the media gets told how much it cost the taxpayers.
Well, this answers my question regarding whether these Florida cities were going to try to impose the post 2010 law on people who had been convicted prior to that date or to 2004? I also find it scary that Florida is abel to impose restrictions on person who were convicted before the Florida sex offenders OR predator laws were even passed. As best as I can tell, they could not restrict this man or even require him to register had he been convicted in Florida. Of course, if he is in a hospice for end stage Alzheimers, he will die long before this case could ever be resolved one way or another.