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New sex offender rules and regulations become law in Iowa

By Douglas A. Berman

As detailed in this local article, "revised restrictions on convicted sex offenders were signed into law today by Gov. Chet Culver, under a bill that several key law enforcement officials said will better protect Iowans."  Here are more details: The main change in Senate file 340 sets up what is known as exclusion zones.  It gives schools, child care centers and public library officials the ability to grant or deny access to any convicted sex offender. But the bill also no longer prohibits about 3,100 of the state's lower-risk offenders from living closer than 2,000 feet from a school or child care facility.  They could live as close as they like, but they would not be allowed inside the exclusion zone. Offenders with the most serious crimes on their records would still be required to abide by the 2,000-foot rule, however...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on May 21, 2009 (boomark / email).