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WI - Waukesha alderman moves to toughen sex offender residency limits

Original Article 03/08/2011 By Laurel Walker Waukesha - A Waukesha alderman wants to toughen the city's sex offender residency restrictions even further, and he got support Monday from the Ordinance and License Committee. Ald. Steve Johnson, chairman of the committee, has proposed a requirement that no sex offender on the state registry can be placed by the Department of Corrections in the city unless that person was a resident of the city for at least 14 consecutive days at the time of the offense. "I don't believe we should be taking people who lived in Oconomowoc, Sussex, North Prairie, Mukwonago after they served their time to be placed in Waukesha," Johnson said Tuesday. Johnson's proposal was unanimously backed, though just three members of the five-person committee were present...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues on March 08, 2011 (boomark / email).