{"id":294900,"date":"2026-06-03T20:50:25","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T20:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/294900\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T20:50:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T20:50:25","slug":"miami-dade-to-honor-jimmy-ryce-with-street-naming-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/294900\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami-Dade to honor Jimmy Ryce with street naming ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"

The late Jimmy Ryce, the 9-year-old boy whose 1995 abduction and murder<\/a> sparked sweeping national reforms in child safety and missing children’s protections, will be honored on Friday with a street naming ceremony.<\/p>\n

“This designation ensures that Jimmy’s name, and the urgency of protecting our children, will always remain present in our community,” Miami-Dade County Commissioner Danielle Cohen Higgins said in a statement announcing the ceremony.<\/p>\n

“Jimmy’s story is heartbreaking,” she added. “By naming this roadway in his honor, we reaffirm our commitment to vigilance, advocacy, and the safety of every child in Miami-Dade County.”<\/p>\n

READ MORE: How Jimmy Ryce’s Death Changed The Way We Treat Sex Predators<\/a><\/p>\n

The Miami-Dade County Board of County Commissioners unanimously approved a resolution sponsored by Cohen Higgins to co-designate a portion of Southwest 162nd Avenue, between Southwest 232nd and Southwest 240th streets, as “Jimmy Ryce Avenue.”<\/p>\n

The ceremony is scheduled for 10 a.m. Friday at the intersection of Southwest 162nd Avenue and Southwest 240th Street.<\/p>\n

Jimmy was kidnapped and killed in September 1995 near his Redland-area home. His case led Florida to enact the Jimmy Ryce Act<\/a>, one of the nation’s most aggressive laws targeting the civil commitment of sexually violent predators.<\/p>\n

His killer, Juan Carlos Chavez, was executed in February 2014<\/a> after nearly two decades on death row.<\/p>\n

Representatives of the Jimmy Ryce Foundation are expected to attend Friday’s ceremony alongside county officials and community leaders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The late Jimmy Ryce, the 9-year-old boy whose 1995 abduction and murder sparked sweeping national reforms in child…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294901,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-294900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}