Judge to hear ACLU challenge to sex offender residency law

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Judge to hear ACLU challenge to sex offender residency law

"PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A federal judge is scheduled to hear a challenge by the ACLU of Rhode Island to Rhode Island's newly enacted law making it a crime for certain sex offenders to live within 1,000 feet of a school.

The hearing by U.S. District Court Judge John J. McConnell, Jr. is set for 3 p.m. Friday in Providence.

The ACLU says the residency prohibition on all Level 3 sex offenders is unconstitutionally vague, violates due process, retroactively punishes those who already completed their sentences and interferes with privacy interests without a legitimate purpose.

Dozens of Providence residents have been ordered to move and the ACLU is seeking to stop enforcement of the law while its complaint is being litigated."

 

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Not directly related, but similar thing from Minnesota,

Federal judge says state must prepare to release sex offende...

"ST. PAUL — A federal judge ordered Minnesota Thursday to give sex offenders in a state treatment program a chance to be released, but did not require the state to free anyone immediately.

He wrote that the state “must promptly conduct independent” assessment of each of the sex offenders in the program, all but one of whom are men, to see if they meet constitutional requirements to keep them in the post-prison treatment. State officials must determine if offenders could be housed in “less restricted alternative” settings, he wrote."