Miami New Times Reveals Sex Offenders Living Under a Bridge
By AAN Staff
april 10, 2007 01:18 pm
But the men aren't hiding from the law. Incredibly, they were ordered to sleep under that bridge by state authorities,
New Times' Isaiah Thompson reported last month. Residency restrictions for sex offenders have complicated the task of finding suitable housing for some offenders, especially those who leave prison homeless. "Probation officers just don't know what to do with cases like this," a Florida Department of Corrections spokesperson tells New Times. The alt-weekly's report has kicked up a storm of follow-up coverage, including stories by
CNN and
the Associated Press. But as New Times Broward-Palm Beach reporter Bob Norman
complains on his blog (referring specifically to CNN), it's "too bad they're too arrogant and unprofessional to say whose scoop it is."