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| As Minnesota prepares to move more sex offenders out of state program, Legislature grapples with placement restrictions |
| By minnpost.com- Briana Bierschbach |
| Published: 04/01/2016 |
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At first, it seemed like a simple request: Several community leaders from around the state had traveled to St. Paul to ask lawmakers to give them more authority to restrict the placement of level three sex offenders — considered the highest risk to reoffend — away from places like parks, schools or churches. In one example, Dale Powers, a city council member from Clear Lake, told members of the House Public Safety and Crime Prevention Finance and Policy Committee about an effort last year to move a level three offender to a house in another town, Birchwood Village. The house was located near a popular park, so in community of about 870 people, 835 signed a petition to pass an ordinance restricting the move. But local officials were worried such a rule wouldn’t hold up to judicial scrutiny: under the law, only the state of Minnesota is given the power to place or move sex offenders around in communities. “The city was powerless to do anything about it,” Powers said. “This is really a quality of life issue.” Read More. |
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