Georgia sex offender 1000 feet

Description:State lawmakers adopted the law in , calling it crucial to protecting the state's most vulnerable population: The court also said the statute looms over every location that a sex offender chooses to call home and notes while the case in question particularly involves a day care center, "next time it could be a playground, a school bus stop, a skating rink or a church. It also led to challenges from groups like the Southern Center for Human Rights, which argued that it would force some offenders to live in their cars or set up tents or trailers in the woods, and undermine other efforts to keep track of offenders. Email ATLANTA — Georgia's top court overturned a state law Wednesday that banned registered sex offenders from living within 1, feet of schools, churches and other areas where children congregate. Jerry Keen, said the court "superseded both the legislative and executive branches of government, and therefore the will of the people of Georgia. A judge ruled last year that the law's school bus stop provision could not be enforced unless school boards officially designated the stops. The bill's sponsor, state Rep.

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