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Lee sex offender ordinance language deemed too vague by judges

By "eAdvocate"

Two issues are relevant:1) If it takes a judge and a couple of lawyers to decide whether or not a person violated a law, then the person is innocent simply because laws are supposed to be written so that "a reasonable man/woman" can understand them; this one is not easily understood from how it is written;2) There is no proof that "children regularly congregate" anywhere, their parents may take them to places (designed by adults to attract or lure children to come. i.e., schools, parks, playgrounds, etc.) but that is not proof that the children would do so of their own accord. No one can know the minds of children or be able to ascertain what they might do or not do, or what they wish to do. The phrase where "children regularly congregate" is the legislature trying to read the minds of children, like a lie detector trys to read a person's mind...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues, News, Recidivism and Studies on December 17, 2009 (boomark / email).