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Difficulties with Enforcing City Residency Restrictions

By Corey Rayburnyung

A helpful reader sent me this article about some of the problems with enforcing residency restriction laws:It's one thing to adopt a bylaw restricting where convicted sex offenders can live. It's another matter to enforce the new rules. Southborough adopted such a bylaw at Town Meeting on April 17. If approved by the state attorney general's office, which has approved similar bylaws in Dedham, Marlborough, and West Boylston, registered sex offenders would be barred from residing in 90 percent of the town, according to a presentation delivered by Police Chief William Webber to Town Meeting members. The bylaw bars registered offenders from living within 1,000 feet of schools, day-care centers, elderly housing, parks, and other facilities. Convicted offenders deemed likely to commit another sexual assault - those classified as Level 2 or 3 predators - would also be barred from living within 1,000 feet of places of worship...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Crimes on May 08, 2008 (boomark / email).