RSOs trespassed from Ft. Meyers Woods have Nowhere to Go.

Several months ago, police in Ft. Meyers issued trespass warnings to homeless sex offenders living in the woods on private land in Ft. Meyers. A week later they evicted the homeless under threat of arrest, even though they had been living there for years without incident and had limited housing options.

The encampment of registrants was another consequence of residency restrictions passed in that area which prevent registrants from living within certain proximity of schools, parks, day cares, etc.

A video of the police handing out trespass notices was posted by News-Press and can be found here: http://archive.news-press.com/VideoNetwork/3157636527001/Police-hand-out-trespass-warnings-to-homeless-including-several-sex-offenders

Two minutes into the video, Fred Schilffarth, Homeless Outreach Coordinator for CityGate Ministries, concedes there is “nowhere for them to go and I am quoting that directly from my sources at the Lee County Sheriff’s Office.”