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| Council won’t pursue sex offender law |
| By The Journal Times |
| Published: 05/21/2008 |
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WISCONSIN - A year after 11th District Alderman Greg Helding proposed adopting an ordinance to restrict where sex offenders live, the City Council is putting it to rest. Its decision is in line with Wisconsin legislative bill AB702 that was proposed last session and would prohibit subdivisions from placing restrictions on where sex offenders can live. There are 251 registered sex offenders living in Racine, according to a Family Watchdog database. There are 235 registered offenders in Kenosha and 1,237 in Milwaukee, according to the database. In May 2007 Helding proposed adopting the sex offender ordinance. It would have resembled an ordinance in Franklin that set up 2,000-foot buffer zones surrounding schools and other places children could be. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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