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Illinois Legislature Considers More Sex Offender Restrictions

By Corey Rayburnyung

From one of my colleagues, I learned that the Illinois Legislature is considering a number of new sex offender bills. From the St. Louis Post-DispatchEvery year, Illinois' list of registered sex offenders grows. And every year, the Legislature introduces a new crop of bills to restrict where they can live, where they can walk or stand, what they can drive, even what they can wear. New bills would crack down on sex offenders who try to sign up for Internet dating sites, would prohibit them from driving ice cream trucks or donning Santa costumes and would prevent them from visiting nursing homes. One bill mandates that their movements be monitored for life by satellite. Those bills, if ultimately passed into law, would join a long list of boundaries already encircling the state's roughly 23,400 (and counting) registered sex offenders...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Crimes on February 17, 2009 (boomark / email).