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Miami-Dade Sex Offender Residency Ordinance Unsuccessfully Challenged
Loaded on Nov. 30, 2015
by David Reutter
published in Prison Legal News
December, 2015, page 30
Filed under:
Sex Offenders (Discrimination),
Sex Offender Residence,
Release and Reentry.
Location:
Florida.
Miami-Dade Sex Offender Residency Ordinance Unsuccessfully Challenged
by David M. Reutter
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) recently challenged the constitutionality of a Miami-Dade County, Florida ordinance that, according to the organization, forces sex offenders on probation into homelessness by imposing residency restrictions so harsh there is literally no place ...
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