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FL - Commissioners should take a Dade field trip

View the article here 04/14/2009 By FRED GRIMM The Broward County commissioners ought to forgo today's public hearing on a get-tough sex offender residency ordinance. They'd do better taking a field trip 25 miles south to visit a wretched repository of unintended consequences. The proposed ordinance would expand the forbidden residency zones to the same 2,500-foot radius around parks, schools, day care centers and school bus stops in unincorporated Broward that has had such bizarre ramifications in Miami-Dade County. Broward commissioners could venture down into the dank and dingy underside of the Julia Tuttle Causeway to see what comes of a residency restriction that effectively eliminates all affordable housing east of the Everglades...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues on April 14, 2009 (boomark / email).