City Passes One Of Nation's Toughest Sex Offender Laws
POSTED: Monday, June 6, 2005
UPDATED: 9:49 am EDT June 7,
2005
The city of Oviedo unanimously passed one of the toughest sex offender laws in the nation Monday night, according to Local 6 News.
The new law says that sex offenders who have committed crimes against children under 16 years old cannot live within 2,500 feet of schools, libraries, parks, playgrounds, day cares and churches.
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Since the city is so small, the restrictions cover most of the Ovideo.Previously, the city only required sex offenders to register their address with no limits on where they could live."I think it is great," Oviedo resident Lilly Rosen said. "I think we need to protect our kids. I think they need a safe place to grow up in and I'm so happy they finally passed this."
The city originally passed a 2-mile radius from the locations but scaled it down to protect the move from constitutional challenges, Local 6 News reported."Due to the fact that we are only a 15-mile wide city, but if the city was much wider or much larger, 30 to 40 miles, I believe this ordinance would have kept the two miles," Ovideo councilman James Greer said.The new law was prompted by outrage at the arrests of sex offenders in the separate killings of 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford and 12-year-old Sarah Lunde this year.Lunsford's father commended the city of Oviedo for taking action during the meeting Monday night.For now, no sex offenders in Oviedo will be affected by the ordinance."This ordinance does not apply to any sex offenders in the city of Oviedo right now because the ordinance says this pertains to offenders who committed their offense after Oct. 1 of 2004," Oviedo police Chief Charles Drago said.The ordinance takes effect immediately.The Ovideo mayor said he has been contacted by several cities around the country who are interested in seeing a draft of the new law, Local 6 News reported.Watch Local 6 News for more on this story.
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MORE: Sex Offenders In Your Neighborhood? RELATED: Subdivision Guarantees No Sex Offenders RELATED: Floridians Flock To Sex Offender Registry Since the city is so small, the restrictions cover most of the Ovideo.Previously, the city only required sex offenders to register their address with no limits on where they could live."I think it is great," Oviedo resident Lilly Rosen said. "I think we need to protect our kids. I think they need a safe place to grow up in and I'm so happy they finally passed this."
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