NH- Sex Offender Challenges Housing Ordinance

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3-18-2009 New Hampshire:

FRANKLIN, N.H. -- A convicted sex offender who wants to live with his partner in Franklin is challenging an ordinance that prohibits him from living within 2,500 feet of a school.

Frank Singleton, III, represented by the New Hampshire Civil Liberties Union, asked a judge to order the mayor and police chief not to enforce the sex offender registry ordinance that would prevent him from living with his partner and the mother of his three children.

Singleton, who's in the State Prison in Concord, was eligible for parole on Jan. 22. However, his pleading states his pending release requires he live with his companion.

Singleton pleaded guilty in 1998 to endangering the welfare of a child. He was found guilty last year of possessing a narcotic drug and failing to report as an offender. ..News Source.. by WMUR9.com