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MA - GAIL M. MACDONALD: Predator zones don?t work

View the article here 03/14/2009 QUINCY- As the director of a preschool, I am entrusted with the care of 50 children every day. For that reason, I take safety issues very seriously and, like most everyone, abhor any person who would harm a child, particularly a sexual offender. But despite my professional and personal commitment to the children of Quincy, I cannot support the proposal put forth by City Councilors Doug Gutro and Kevin Coughlin to prohibit Level III registered sex offenders from living, loitering and perhaps even working within 1,500 feet of schools, parks and other places where children and elderly people congregate. The bottom line is that the unintended consequences of such a law would decrease, rather than increase, the safety of our city?s children...continue to full post

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