Here’
s an interesting wire service story:
A federal judge on Monday blocked Georgia from targeting
eight individuals with its sweeping law that would bar sex offenders from
living near school bus stops.Many states have barred offenders from working and living near schools,
but Georgia’s law goes farther by restricting them from living or working
within 1,000 feet of a school bus stop.
There are, of course, very few places in Georgia that aren’t within 1000
feet of a school bus stop.
Look, folks — if a person has paid their debt to society, they should (in
an ideal world) be free to live unencumbered by things such as registries.
If a person is considered unsafe to live free in public, they shouldn’t be
out on their own — keep them in jail, make them wear monitoring bracelets,
get them professional help…whatever.
This nonsense of saying that you are free…but you just can’t live or work
anywhere just ain’t right.