Miami moves to force out sex offenders' causeway camp

The Miami Herald reports:

A rarely visited spoil island just a stone's throw from a homeless camp under the Julia Tuttle Causeway has spurred Miami leaders to attempt to uproot the sex offenders who are forced to live there.

Miami City Manager Pete Hernandez sent a letter this week to Gov. Charlie Crist, demanding the state immediately relocate the 70 offenders living under the causeway because they live too close to the island, which the city considers a public park.

The group of men -- and one woman -- have been forced to live under the bridge for two years because of a patchwork of local government laws that makes it illegal for them to live within 2,500 feet of where children might congregate.