Budget move would let Wisconsin sex offenders live closer to schools, day care centers

[TexasTowelie]

MADISON - Sexual predators would have to live in their home counties when they are released but could be placed near schools, parks and day care centers, under a plan adopted Tuesday by the Legislature’s budget committee.

The legislator behind the plan said he wanted to crack down on judges placing violent sex offenders far from their home counties, in part by putting the responsibility for finding housing for them in the hands of local officials.

“There is a logjam in the system now where they’re having trouble placing people in the final phase of treatment,” said Rep. Mark Born (R-Beaver Dam). “We really need to remember this is treatment and the folks who are in it have constitutional rights.”

The Joint Finance Committee approved the plan 13-3, with Rep. Katrina Shankland (D-Stevens Point) joining all Republicans in supporting it. The other Democrats on the committee said the proposal should get a hearing and be dealt with as stand-alone legislation.

Read more: http://www.jsonline.com/story/news/2017/05/16/budget-committee-consider-cutting-6-jobs-elections-commission/322906001/

[customerserviceguy]

1. We're talking violent sex offenders, right?

Prison sounds like a good housing option in those cases.

[dembotoz]

2. know a family whose kid ended up on this when he turn 18 before his girlfriend did and the girls

father took revenge.....

screwed up everybodies life

obviously need to keep the perv off the street but sometimes the brush stroke can seem a little too wide