{"id":1231,"date":"2019-02-20T13:03:14","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T19:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/?p=1231"},"modified":"2019-02-20T13:03:53","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T19:03:53","slug":"miami-dade-sex-offenders-forced-to-be-homeless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/2019\/02\/20\/miami-dade-sex-offenders-forced-to-be-homeless\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami-Dade Sex Offenders &#8216;Forced to be Homeless&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"introduction-wrapper\">\n<p>The Crime Report | By Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg<\/p>\n<p>Since he was released from prison almost five years ago, John has never had a place he can call home.<\/p>\n<p>Suffering from Parkinson\u2019s disease, he spends nights outside in remote areas of Miami-Dade County\u2014sleeping outside on a mat or in the front seat of his son\u2019s truck.<\/p>\n<p>John (not his real name) was convicted in 1994 of a sex offense involving a minor. His homelessness is a direct result of the <a href=\"http:\/\/miamidade.fl.elaws.us\/code\/coor_ptiii_ch21_artxvii\">Lauren Book Child Safety Ordinance<\/a><u>,<\/u>enacted in Miami-Dade County in 2010, which bans individuals convicted of certain sex crimes, including those involving minors, from living within 2,500 feet of a school.<\/p>\n<p>The ban effectively puts most populated areas of Miami-Dade off limits to him\u2014which is why John is allowed to stay at his niece\u2019s home, which is within the exclusion zone, during the day, but not at night.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>Read at <a href=\"https:\/\/thecrimereport.org\/2019\/02\/19\/miami-dade-sex-offenders-forced-to-be-homeless\/\">The Crime Report<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Crime Report | By Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg Since he was released from prison almost five years ago, John has never had a place he can call home. Suffering from Parkinson\u2019s disease, he spends nights outside in remote areas of Miami-Dade County\u2014sleeping outside on a mat or in the front seat of his son\u2019s truck. John &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/2019\/02\/20\/miami-dade-sex-offenders-forced-to-be-homeless\/\" class=\"more-link\">Miami-Dade Sex Offenders &#8216;Forced to be Homeless&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":836,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,8],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1231","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-notes","7":"category-residency-news","8":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/836"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}