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Parents: New Lynn sex offender law not strong enough

By "eAdvocate"

2-13-2011 Massachusetts: LYNN - Ingalls parents were not happy to hear Tuesday that a revamped local sex offender law set to be enforced starting Friday exempts more than 200 local offenders, including 60 classified by the state as ?likely to reoffend.? These Level 3 offenders and 154 Level 2 ?moderate? reoffenders are exempt from the law and its exclusion zones because they lived in the city prior to Feb. 11. ?That?s not too good,? said Ingalls parent Eric Pagan, father of a 5-year-old and an 8-year-old. ?I feel they should be as far away as possible; especially people who are likely to reoffend,? he said. The law, passed last December by the City Council and signed by Mayor Judith Flanagan Kennedy on Jan. 12, bars offenders from living within 1,000 feet of public or private schools or parks including ballfields and playgrounds...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues, News, Recidivism and Studies on February 13, 2011 (boomark / email).