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FL - County looks to protect neighborhood from sex offenders

View the article here 04/14/2009 By Scott Wyman Sex offenders will be at least temporarily barred from moving into a neighborhood that has become a haven amid growing living restrictions across South Florida. Broadview Park is a small working class neighborhood no larger than a square mile, yet it?s home to 5 percent of all sexual offenders in Broward. Under the temporary rules, sex offenders cannot move to a home within 2,500 feet of a school, day care center, park, bus stop or playground in any unincorporated area. - If it's not a law, but some "temporary rules" then how can they enforce it? Sex offenders and civil liberty advocates argued that a permanent ban would leave those convicted of crimes virtually nowhere to live in the tri-county area...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues on April 19, 2009 (boomark / email).