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Iowa Sex Offender Cohabitant Law Upheld: An AP story by Michael Crumb reports that the Iowa Supreme Court, in a split opinion, upheld a law that bars single parents from living with convicted sex offenders. The case involves a Coralville woman found guilty of child endangerment and sentenced to one year probation because she lived with a convicted sex offender and let her children stay with the man - so long as they were supervised by her mother or her sister - while she was at work. In her appeal, Holly Mitchell argued that her equal protection rights were violated because the Iowa Legislature decided to distinguish between married and unmarried people, subjecting only unmarried people to criminal charges for engaging in the same behavior as married people...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime and Consequences on November 17, 2008 (boomark / email).