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FL - Perversion and Justice - Made homeless by legislation - Told to live under a bridge!

View the article here Citizens for Change - America 02/17/2009 By Natalie O'Neill Will the state help with the growing sex offender colony under the Julia Tuttle Causeway? Miami's colony of sex offenders is a lot like a big, stubborn pimple on the nose of the city: Nobody likes it, yet it just keeps growing. So it's no surprise that after nearly two years of policymakers ignoring the problem, it has gotten uglier. The number of men living in a state-sanctioned tent settlement under the Julia Tuttle Causeway has more than doubled to 40 since New Times first broke the story in March 2007. In response, Miami city commissioners passed some better-late-than-never legislation last week, designed to put pressure on the governor's office. To sum up the good-intentioned, if somewhat toothless, resolution: The city will ask the state to form a task force to study and solve the public-safety-meets-human-rights nightmare...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues on February 18, 2009 (boomark / email).