NJ- Legislators set to debate sex offender residency restrictions

In other words, the Legislature is trying to figure how to overrule the court's decision. What is so funny is, the court's decision is based on PRIOR legislators' thinking and laws enacted. The task: How to get around the ex post facto clauses?

6-7-2009 New Jersey:

Legislation that would allow New Jersey communities to impose residency restrictions for sex offenders will be debated Monday by an Assembly panel.

The Judiciary Committee also will consider a bill that would require mandatory ignition locks for all drunk driving offenses in the state.

The measure regarding where sex offenders could live comes just weeks after the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled towns cannot ban sex offenders from living near schools, parks, or other places where children gather.

The proposed bill, A-641, would permit local measures that bar Megan's Law registrants from living up to 2,000 feet from such places.

And supporters say it would ensure that such ordinances couldn't be manipulated to create a zoning scheme that would effectively block sex offenders from living anywhere in a given town. ..Source.. by BRUCE SHIPKOWSKI