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FL - Broward faces knotty issue of sex offenders

View the article here 04/16/2009 By FRED GRIMM No one on the Broward County Commission defended the notion of a 2,500-foot rule that would essentially eliminate all feasible housing for registered sex offenders. The commissioners heard a series of experts warn about the folly of a Draconian residency restriction that force sex offenders into homelessness. They were told that offenders forced into unstable living conditions become more difficult to supervise, more likely to abscond, more likely to re-offend. Lori Butts, a lawyer and psychologist who runs a South Florida sex offender treatment program, warned that stable housing was necessary for their jobs, monitoring and treatment. Banishing them to live under bridges, she warned, would leave sex offenders with "nothing to live for...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues on April 16, 2009 (boomark / email).