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New South Carolina Law Restricts Residency, Reduces Penalty For Failure to Register

By Corey Rayburnyung

South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford has signed a new bill into law that prohibits sex offenders from living within 1,000 feet of a church, school, daycare center, or playground. The law however, reduces the penalty for sex offenders who fail to register.  From WBTW News:South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford signed a new sex offender bill into law in June that makes it illegal for a convicted sex offender from living within 1,000 feet of a school, daycare, church, or playground. The law also reduces the penalty for sex offenders who fail to register with county sheriff?s offices, which state law requires offenders to do on a yearly basis for the rest of their lives. Under Jessie?s Law, which Sanford signed in Myrtle Beach in 2006, the penalty for a convicted sex offender failing to register was a mandatory 90 days in jail, with no part of that sentence suspended...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Crimes on November 13, 2008 (boomark / email).