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Sex offenders often live too close to schools; who is checking?

By Michael Blankenship

In Idaho, people convicted of sex crimes are required to register their address. But they can't live just anywhere. A law passed in 2006 established that convicted sex offenders cannot live within 500 feet of a school. But nowhere in the law does it say who is supposed to monitor those boundaries. Read more... What should we make of this Channel 7 news story? The fact that some offenders are falling through the enforcement crack? Not surprising given the limited resources and the poor wording of the criminal code. That a few offenders are in violation of the law? Again not surprising given the fact that it is doubtful that they or anyone else bothered to actually measure until this news report. Even more problematic is the scarcity of available housing...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Justice Gambit on November 23, 2009 (boomark / email).