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NJ Supreme Court finds local residency restrictions preempted by state's Megan's law

By Douglas A. Berman

As detailed in this press coverage, "The New Jersey Supreme Court today upheld a lower court ruling invalidating ordinances in Cherry Hill and Galloway Township that severely restricted where registered sex offenders could live."    Here is how the brief ruling in G.H. v. Township of Galloway, No. A-64/65 (NJ May 7, 2009) (available here), gets started: We granted certification in this consolidated appeal to review an Appellate Division determination that Megan?s Law, see N.J.S.A. 2C:7-1 to -19, preempted and required the invalidation of municipal ordinances enacted by Cherry Hill Township and Galloway Township.  The challenged ordinances each operated to prohibit convicted sex offenders from living within a designated distance of any school, park, playground, public library, or daycare center in its respective municipal jurisdiction...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on May 07, 2009 (boomark / email).