A sheriff in Florida, Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd, tweeted that people who are on active warrants trying to seek shelter from Hurricane Irma at an evacuation center will be arrested.
“If you go to a shelter for #Irma, be advised: sworn LEOs [law enforcement officers] will be at every shelter, checking IDs. Sex offenders/predators will not be allowed,” the account for Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd tweeted on Wednesday morning. “We cannot and we will not have innocent children in a shelter with sexual offenders and predators. Period,” Judd posted.
“If you go to a shelter for #Irma and you have a warrant, we'll gladly escort you to the safe and secure shelter called the Polk County Jail.”
Public information officer Carrie Eleazer Horstman, who authored the tweet on behalf of the Sheriff’s Office, said her office was merely trying to give people fair warning about long-standing policies, in response to claims that his tweets were heartless.
