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OK - Okla. Senate considers including ice-cream truck vendors in sex off. leg.

View the article here Once again, fear mongering, and more punishment.  Why don't you talk to parents, and tell them to accompany their children to the truck to get the ice cream? 02/20/2009 Lawton - It's often one of the best parts of a kid's say - the time when the ice cream truck visits the neighborhood or park. It's an age-old tradition that most parents find harmless, but police and state lawmakers worry that some ice-cream men could be sex offenders who use their job to prey on unsuspecting children. The Oklahoma Senate is considering a bill that would outlaw sex offenders from dishing out frozen treats to kids across the state. Ice-cream truck vendor could be the perfect job for a child predator, and while Lawton Police say they have never worked a case involving an ice-cream man doing anything bad to a kid, they say the might never have to do that if this bill passes...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues on February 20, 2009 (boomark / email).