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FL - Child-safety zones work

View the article here Also read this, and leave a comment 11/14/2009 By JILL LEVENSON In an Associated Press article printed in the Nov. 4 Miami Herald we learned that Florida's Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability concluded that residential-restriction laws for sex offenders are ineffective in preventing repeat abuse. They suggested instead that child-safety zones, which prohibit registered sex offenders from loitering in places where children congregate, would be more successful in achieving the goal of keeping known sex offenders away from children. The legislative policy analyst who testified based the conclusions on published research demonstrating that residence restrictions do not prevent abuse and that an offender's proximity to schools and daycares is not linked to recidivism...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues on November 16, 2009 (boomark / email).