FL: Westlake City Council blocks future registrants from living there

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Source: cbs12.com 7/17/24

WESTLAKE, Fla. (CBS12) — The Westlake City Council unanimously signed off on plans to enact stricter requirements on sexual predators and offenders – with one minor change.

The measure is designed to protect the youngest residents of the area’s fastest-growing city and its main focus is widening the zones where predators are allowed to live, keeping them further away from children.

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Under the new regulations, schools, parks, community centers, playgrounds, and “other places where children regularly congregate” would be no-go zones. The proposal originally included libraries, but that was dropped prior to the vote. In his statement, O’Connor pointed out there are no libraries in Westlake nor are there plans to build one.

Currently, Florida law bars predators and offenders from living within 1,000 feet of these spots, but city officials have stretched that distance to 2,500 feet—about half a mile in every direction. For a small city like Westlake, that’d leave virtually no space for them to settle.

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I guess they never heard of a CAR ?>

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The proposal originally included libraries, but that was dropped prior to the vote. In his statement, O’Connor pointed out there are no libraries in Westlake nor are there plans to build one.

No libraries and no plans to build one in a town with leaders like this? I’m shocked! SHOCKED! Well, not that shocked.

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The measure is designed to protect the youngest residents of the area’s fastest-growing city and its main focus is widening the zones where predators are allowed to live, keeping them further away from children.

All legitimate data concludes that at least 90% (or more) of new sex crimes are committed by those not on the registry.

In other words…every potential future “predator” is already living there, and they are not on any registry…(yet).

Hopefully, this ridiculous policy won’t last long, and will be reversed following several lawsuits, just as it was in other cities that tried (and failed) to do the same thing. Then again, there are still many places that maintain the 2,500 ft “banishment zone”, so this could go either way.

Whatever happens, you can bet they will keep trying to add more restrictions, and make the ones they already have even more severe, because apparently, that’s what “the people” want…

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“…that’d leave virtually no space for them to settle.”… and soon there will be the world’s smallest “library” right in the middle of what’s left! Leave libraries off the list for now, wait for the cluster, build a “library”, then add libraries onto the no go zone list!

Why else take them off the list, even if you don’t have any?

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