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When Residency Restrictions Aren't Enough

By Corey Rayburnyung

Florida jockeys with Georgia for the overall most restrictive residency restrictions in the United States. Florida's state laws aren't the harshest, but the actions of local governments to supplement the state law makes for a very onerous scheme of restrictions. As I predicted: when the aggregate effect of laws within a single jurisdiction combine, the result will be the formation of sex offender communities (ghettos). Of course, this result is contrary to the law enforcement goal of breaking down sex offender networks. Now, one Florida community has reacted to the growth of sex offender ghettos by attempting to legislate them out of existence. From a local news account:Hillsborough County leaders recently passed a new law that prohibits groups of sex offenders from clustering in one neighborhood...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Crimes on October 06, 2008 (boomark / email).