homeless sex offenders

FL: Action News Jax Investigates: Homeless sex offenders become growing Florida problem

·March 23, 2021
·13 Comments

[actionnewsjax.com - 3/23/21] ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. — Residents listed on the sex offender registry in Florida must live in certain areas, but they are not required to have a permanent…

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AL: Sex offenders at a popular Huntsville homeless camp find it difficult to relocate

·March 22, 2021
·3 Comments

[waff.com - 3/22/21] HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WAFF) - One week ago, Huntsville City and non-profit leaders announced that people living in a large homeless camp known as “tent city” would have…

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AL: Mill Street tent camp residents concerned over relocation

·March 16, 2021
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[whnt.com - 3/16/21] HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — Several residents of a tent camp on Mill Street are expressing their concerns over the forced move to a different location. Some homeless Huntsville…

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FL: Wakulla County to pay $160,000 to settle lawsuit with City Walk Urban Mission

·September 23, 2020
·4 Comments

[wtxl.com - 9/22/20] WAKULLA COUNTY, Fla. (WTXL) — A federal court in Tallahassee has ruled that City Walk Urban Mission can again operate in Wakulla County and can open up…

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FL: Miami-Dade County closing down homeless camp while promoting homeless awareness week

·November 20, 2019
·2 Comments

[local10.com - 11/18/19] MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. - A group of people living in a Miami homeless camp is being told to leave. This is happening in the middle of Homeless…

General News

Kat’s Blog: Rest in Peace My Friends

·February 3, 2019
·14 Comments

Was a homeless registrant who was found dead in the Michigan snow this week a victim of the frigid polar vortex that swept through half the country? (Autopsy report pending.)…

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Laws Punishing Homeless People for Sleeping in Public Are Cruel and Unusual, Fed Court Rules

·September 9, 2018
·11 Comments

[nytimes.com - 9/5/18] Prosecuting homeless people for sleeping on the streets when there is no shelter available is a form of cruel and unusual punishment that violates the Constitution, a…

California

CA: California Program to Help Homeless Vets Excludes Sex Offenders

·May 31, 2018
·15 Comments

[floridaactioncommittee.org - 3/31/18] It sounds like a great program. Homeless military veterans who have been sleeping in their cars and risking arrest for violating a new law making it illegal…

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FL: A decree bars police from harassing homeless people. Miami has moved to terminate it

·May 30, 2018
·10 Comments

[miamiherald.com - 5/30/18] Miami has asked a federal judge to terminate a 20-year-old legal agreement that protects the city's homeless from undue police harassment — a change that would allow…

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FL: Homeless sex offenders lose court fight to keep Hialeah tent camp. Where to next?

·May 10, 2018
·3 Comments

[amp.miamiherald.com 5/10/18] A Miami-Dade judge on Thursday cleared the way for the county to dismantle a tent village of homeless sex offenders outside Hialeah, and a lawyer for some of…

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FL: Jeanne Baker Debates Ron Book on CBS4 News

·May 9, 2018
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[floridaactioncommittee.org 5/8/18] Watch as Jeanne Baker shuts down a lying and very angry Ron Book on South Florida’s CBS Affiliate. Watch the debate Related links: Floridians for Freedom presents: Ron…

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FL: Hearing to take place this Thursday in Miami-Dade case

·May 9, 2018
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[floridaactioncommittee.org 5/8/18] A special-set hearing has been scheduled for this Thursday, May 10, 2018 at 10:15 on Plaintiff’s Emergency Motion for Temporary Injunction. Attorneys for the plaintiffs, homeless registrants, are…

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FL: ACLU Sues to Stop Miami Homeless Sex-Offender Camp Evictions

·May 8, 2018
·10 Comments

[miaminewtimes.com 5/8/18] In 2007, New Times broke national news with a story about how a group of sex-offenders was forced to live in tents underneath the Julia Tuttle Causeway because…

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FL: Under threat of lawsuit, Miami-Dade grants reprieve to eviction of sex offenders

·May 4, 2018
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[floridaactioncommittee.org 5/4/18] Facing an imminent lawsuit to be brought by Legal Services of Greater Miami on behalf of the homeless sex offenders living alongside railroad tracks in Miami-Dade, the Deputy…

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FL: Video Shows City Workers Destroying Property of Homeless Miamians

·April 28, 2018
·8 Comments

[miaminewtimes.com 4/25/18] The morning of April 17, Wilbur Cauley left all of his belongings in their usual place: stacked by a fence under the I-395 overpass at NW First Court…

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MI: Death of homeless sex offender in Grand Rapids poses questions

·March 8, 2018
·11 Comments

[mlive.com] So is this what it finally takes for us to hear the muffled cries of the homeless -- an ex-con dead in the snow because it's against the law…