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Over one year after the Palm Beach County Sex Offender Management Board called the residency restrictions there “pointless”, the county commissioners listened and changed a law that barred registered sex offenders from living 2500 feet from schools, parks, etc. to something more reasonable; 1000 feet and in line with the State’s requirement. The previous restrictions simply left registrants with barely

Source   For sex offenders, at least. One bizarre case reveals the need to reform how we regulate convicted offenders Jenny Kutner Registering as a sex offender automatically imposes scores of restrictions on convicts’ lives, which is essentially why most people favor them. Restrictions barring sex offenders from living within a certain distance of schools or playgrounds might make communities

Another state to defeat municipal sex offender residency restrictions is the State of Massachusetts.     LYNN — Sex offenders can legally live wherever they choose, according to a court ruling that nullifies the city’s sex offender ordinance. “A decision came down last week that no city can enforce a sex offender residency requirement,” said city attorney James Lamanna Friday.

NAPLES, Fla. – Collier County commissioners, led by Donna Fiala, will consider imposing stricter living restrictions for registered sex offenders throughout the county. full story

The article below was written by Lenore Skenazy. Lenore is a journalist and author who was the keynote speaker at this past week’s RSOL conference in Dallas. The excitement of this year’s conference was somewhat overshadowed by the arrest of Josh Gravens. Gravens is a Texas registrant who is on the list for an offense committed when he was 12.

But in our zeal to protect kids, the movement went overboard.