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New Law Tougher on Sex Offenders

By Baker Associates

A myriad of new laws took effect in Tennessee on July 1, 2010, many of which deal directly with criminal law and defendants' rights. One such law will strengthen Tennessee's already burdensome restrictions that are placed on persons found guilty of sexual offenses. Under the old Tennessee Code, an exception to the restrictions placed on registered sex offenders was carved out allowing registered sex offenders to visit the grounds of a school, day care, child care establishment, park, playground or recreation center as a parent or legal guardian of a child who was enrolled and participating in the conference or other scheduled event hosted by the facility or location. This exception applied to all registered sex offenders unless a minor victim of the offense committed by that offender would also be attending that same function in which case the offender was prohibited from attending...continue to full post

Full post as published by Tennessee Criminal Lawyer Blog on July 06, 2010 (boomark / email).