Vote NO, these ordinances protect no one!5-20-2013 Florida:
ORLANDO -- There may soon be new protections in Orlando to keep sex offenders away from kids.
Orlando City leaders are set to vote on a new sex offender ordinance at a city council meeting this afternoon.
Right now, current law said sex offenders cannot live within 1,000 feet of a school, park, playground or day care center. The new ordinance would push that boundary to 1,500 feet within Orlando’s city limits and would only apply to sex offenders whose victims are under the age of 16.
Sex offenders who currently live inside that 1,500 foot boundary would not have to move, but once that moved outside the area, they could not move back in.
“We looked at ordinances around the state that have been tested in terms of what’s fair and right now we feel this is a good balance,” said Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer.
There are some who are concerned about the proposal.
The owner of a local real estate company specializing in finding housing for sex offenders said he believes the new law would eventually push more sex offenders into being homeless. ..Source.. by Kristen Kane, Reporter
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