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Florida Bans Sex Offenders from Hurricane Shelters
Loaded on Sept. 15, 2005
published in Prison Legal News
September, 2005, page 23
Florida Bans Sex Offenders from Hurricane Shelters
A new Florida policy bans sex offenders who are not allowed contact with children from public hurricane shelters. Instead, they will be shuttled to their own shelters-prisons across Florida.
The rule applies to offenders not allowed contact with children as a condition of ...
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