3-4-2009 Georgia:
The state Senate voted Tuesday to change parts of the sex-offender registry law, said to be one of the most restrictive in the nation.
Senate Bill 157 aims to address a court ruling handed down last year by the Georgia Supreme Court, which found unconstitutional the law’s restrictions against registered sex offenders who are homeless and cannot provide an address. The bill would require a homeless offender to provide the Sheriff’s Office, in lieu of an address, the places where he or she sleeps, eats and works and other places the offender frequents, and report in weekly to the Sheriff’s Office.
Humm, this sounds like PROBATION or PAROLE, forcing folks who are FREE to abide by rules of probation or parole. This sounds like discrimination and unconstitutional! Court again, federal this time...
SB 157, which passed 52-2, also allows a judge to release an offender from residency restrictions if the offender no longer poses a substantial risk of being a sexual predator and the person lives in a nursing home, a hospice facility, is permanently disabled or seriously ill and incapacitated. ..News Source.. by Mary Lou Pickel, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Finally, a law that takes into consideration the Americans with Disabilities Act!
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