06
April
FLORIDA HOUSING SEX OFFENDERS UNDER BRIDGE
cnn.com/John Zarella and Patrick Oppmann
Five men, all registered sex offenders convicted of abusing children, live along Miami’s JuliaTuttle Causeway because there is a housing shortage for Miami’s least welcome residents. TheFlorida Department of Corrections says there are fewer and fewer places in Miami-Dade County wheresex offenders can live because the county has some of the strongest restrictions against this kindof criminal in the country. Florida’s solution is, house the convicted felons under a bridge thatforms one part of the causeway. Nearly every day a state probation officer makes a predawn