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| Costly Sex Offender Ordinance Takes Toll on Green Bay |
| By greenbaypressgazette.com |
| Published: 03/02/2010 |
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Green Bay prohibits sex offenders from living within 2,000 feet of schools, parks and other places where children gather. It's an expensive ordinance and one that has raised questions about whether it's worth the cost. The state spends more than $220,000 a year to house convicted sex offenders after they are released from prison at the state's Transitional Living Program house, 1761 Shawano Ave., according to the Department of Corrections. It also pays nearly $4,000 a month for each offender housed at the Brown County Jail after prison release who cannot find a place to live. It can become costly — convicted sex offender Geitano Schmidt, 50, stayed at the Brown County Jail for five months before he was approved to move. Those costs include payments to an agency that drives offenders around to look for housing. Green Bay's sex offender residency ordinance prohibits sex offenders from living in nearly 90 percent of the city. The ordinance was approved in 2007 because of concerns that most of Brown County's listed adult sex offenders lived in Green Bay. An analysis that year by the Green Bay Press-Gazette of the state's Sex Offender Registry found 65 percent of adult sex offenders in the county lived in Green Bay. Read More. |
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