{"id":2759,"date":"2019-08-22T11:50:58","date_gmt":"2019-08-22T15:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sexoffenderonestopresource.com\/florida\/?p=2759"},"modified":"2019-08-22T11:51:55","modified_gmt":"2019-08-22T15:51:55","slug":"new-smyrna-beach-trying-to-ban-registrants-under-threat-of-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sexoffenderonestopresource.com\/florida\/new-smyrna-beach-trying-to-ban-registrants-under-threat-of-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"New Smyrna Beach trying to ban registrants under threat of lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n[FAC NOTE: We must organize a group to create a vocal opposition to the proposed SORR. If you live in Volusia County, please contact membership so we can coordinate.]\nThere are more sex offenders moving to New Smyrna Beach and that has prompted city leaders to consider shrinking the locations where both sexual offenders and sexual predators can legally live.\n\nThere are more sex offenders moving to New Smyrna Beach and that has prompted city leaders to consider shrinking the locations where they can legally live.\n\nIf that happens, though, a civil rights group may decide to fight it.\n\n\u201cThe ACLU has threatened to sue if we do this,\u201d said Mayor Russ Owen when asked about the proposed ordinance Thursday in a phone interview. The mayor inferred that course of action in response to a media interview given recently by a local ACLU chapter member.\n\nIf City Commission approves the new rules, the city will restrict all sex offenders\/predators from living within 2,500 feet of a child care facility, park, playground, or school, regardless of the conviction or offense date,\u201d the police department\u2019s report states.\n\nWhile keeping children safe is a priority, commissioners are are being cautious about the change.\n\n\u201cAre we unintentionally going to force people into one section of town or not?\u201d asked Commissioner Randy Hartman. \u201cI mean, are we going to push them all up to U.S. 1? Are we going to push them all up to West Canal? So I\u2019d like to see a map at the second reading or before then, exactly (which) areas we\u2019re excluding.\u201d\n\n\u201cThese residence restrictions are not designed to protect children,\u201d said Cary Ragsdale, a representative of the local chapter of the national civil rights organization, in a recent interview with a news station. \u201cThey\u2019re designed to punish the registered sex offenders.\u201d\n\nSOURCE\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[FAC NOTE: We must organize a group to create a vocal opposition to the proposed SORR. If you live in Volusia County, please contact membership so we can coordinate.] There are more sex offenders moving to New Smyrna Beach and that has prompted city leaders to consider shrinking the locations where both sexual offenders and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":239,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sex-offender-laws-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sexoffenderonestopresource.com\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sexoffenderonestopresource.com\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sexoffenderonestopresource.com\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sexoffenderonestopresource.com\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/239"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sexoffenderonestopresource.com\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2759"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sexoffenderonestopresource.com\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2760,"href":"https:\/\/sexoffenderonestopresource.com\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2759\/revisions\/2760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sexoffenderonestopresource.com\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sexoffenderonestopresource.com\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sexoffenderonestopresource.com\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}