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Georgia Court Rejects Law on Sex Offenders - washingtonpost.com
Topic: Miscellaneous 3:27 pm EST, Nov 25, 2007

One of the nation's most aggressive attempts to limit the mobility of convicted sex offenders was struck down yesterday, as the Georgia Supreme Court declared unconstitutional the state's law restricting where they may live.

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"It is apparent that there is no place in Georgia where a registered sex offender can live without continually being at risk of being ejected," the ruling said.

The Georgia law had been considered one of the most comprehensive in the nation, not only for the breadth of its residency limits but also because it covered even the mildest types of sex offender, such as those convicted of having consensual sex acts as high school students.

Finally, some sanity out of the Georgia lawmakers...

Georgia Court Rejects Law on Sex Offenders - washingtonpost.com



 
 
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