The City of Westlake, Florida, is scheduled to consider tomorrow a significant increase in its residency restrictions from 1,000 feet to 2,500 feet. If the city ordinance is adopted, most individuals convicted of a sex offense involving a minor who is 15 years or younger would be prohibited from living near schools, libraries, day care centers, parks, playgrounds, community centers, day camps or any other place where children regularly congregate.
“The city ordinance under consideration would violate state law if it is adopted,” stated ACSOL Executive Director Janice Bellucci. “That is because state law is less restrictive than the proposed ordinance.”
State law currently prohibits most registrants from living within 1,000 feet of fewer locations (only schools, childcare facilities, parks or playgrounds). In addition, the proposed city ordinance includes a prohibition not existing in state law, that is, land owners and managers could not lawfully rent or lease homes to most registrants. Anyone who violates the ordinance the first time would be fined up to $500 and imprisoned up to six months. The fine and imprisonment would be doubled for any subsequent violations.
The Florida Action Committee (FAC) opposes the ordinance under consideration by the City of Westlake. The city council meeting at which the ordinance will be considered will be broadcast live at https://cityofwestlake.my.webex.com. The meeting ID is 2634-047-7428 and the password is “hello.” The meeting can also be heard by dialing 650-479-3208.
“ACSOL supports FAC and its opposition to the proposed ordinance,” stated Bellucci.
Click here to find out how to take action on the Florida Action Committee website
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These residency restrictions make me nuts. Where the f@#k are people supposed to live?!
I am so tired of the hatred in this country. I am so tired of hypocrisy of some people who call themselves Christians. I am so tired of people in this country who live in an alternate reality and do not believe in facts – my deceased lawyer uncle summed up it best for me, “your opinion does not change the facts”.
I’lll sum up this article and those like it.
NIMBY
Banish people away from me, towards you? Keep me “safe” by making sure you are always closer? I hate to think that people would push somebody else under the bus they presume all PFRs are driving just to save themself, but maybe? It’s not like banishing people an extra X feet away sends them to some enchanted land where no harm can take place. So, if it cannot accomplish that, what can it accomplish?
If someone is going to do harm, what does making them move 1,500 feet away do, other than maybe change who gets harmed?
I love how these crazy, stupid, unnecessary laws are now being broadened to criminalize “regular” citizens – in this case, anyone who would rent or lease to a PFR! 🙄
Will Florida create a Registry for those individuals as well? Maybe a “Landlord Offense Registry”? 😒
(Note to Captcha: ‘Still a human.🤷🏻♂️ Sorry.)
All they have to do is wave their arms about and shout “it’s for the children”, and they get away with wholesale banishment. Of course, they call it a “regulatory scheme”…because that sounds so much more “politically correct” and legal.
In reality, they couldn’t care less about “protecting” anyone or anything but their own self-interests, and they will continue to placate the public with a completely fictional promise of “security” so long as it’s profitable for them to do so.
At this point, it’s all just a competition to see who can come up with the most vindictive, dehumanizing restrictions and “regulatory schemes” possible.
Hopefully, their decisions will bite them in the backside, and at the very least, maybe they’ll soon be up to their armpits in lawsuits…
Didn’t a county or city in Florida recently get their residency restrictions shot down?
Residency restrictions make absolutely ZERO sense because one does not have to live near a school, playground, park, etc in order to do harm to someone. A person hell bent on doing harm isn’t going to let these stupid restrictions prevent him. All he has to do is walk, drive, hitchhike, or bicycle to where he wants to do something and unleash terror.
I have no residency restrictions here in Michigan, but even if I did I wouldn’t do anything stupid near a place I lived. If I was going to do something stupid I’d go do it in another city or county, or even another state where I wasn’t known.
Doing something stupid near your residence would be like embezzling from a bank where you just got hired.
i guess if you are a republican in florida you are king, kings dictated, {king ron “desatin”} governor of FL threaten by woke, florida is a red model they want the whole country to look like them,the fact 20 or more red states do look like them.the party wants all states to look and act like them…..all because of MAGA….. and why is {marjory green} calling all democrats murders and perverts is she saying that to members of congress or to the members of the senate or is that shout out directed to cilvilians citizens…. she should be sued for framing citizens as pervs and murders. the more they stand together it will be harder to abolished the registery…. as you can see flordia and the rest of red states are a mirror reflection of 2025 manuel, always beating down the beliefs of others if the others dont agree them, im 68 and my attitude at 68 is i have one foot in the ground and the other foot not far behind it, feels like there no hope to abolished registery or ones consitutional rights.. i say to all those aholes F OFF . thank you joe … ps to all ,,,,, stay away from red states
The more they pile on to the “regulatory, non punishment” statutes the harder it is to claim that its not punishment. The more it comes back as egg on the face of the legislature and the lies that compose the registration scheme. Im of a half mind to say allow them to keep it up then challenge the whole thing at once, but also to save one or more families from suffering under the regime.