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8:12 PM on October 27, 2009

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Citations Related to Residency Requirements

“There is no evidence in Minnesota that residency proximity to schools or parks affects reoffense … Blanket proximity restrictions … do not enhance community safety.” (Minnesota Department of Corrections, “Level Three Sex Offenders Residential Placement Issues” 2003 Report to the Legislature, http://www.corr.state.mn.us/publications/legislativereports/pdf/2004 /Lvl%203%20SEX%20OFFENDERS%20report%202003%20(revised%202-04).pdf)

“There is simply no evidence to suggest that residency restriction … will lead to decreases in recidivism. Rather, the evidence suggests mass migration to rural areas, decreasing their social stability and increasing their risk of recidivism [plus] a dramatic increase in offenders driven underground” (California Coalition Against Sexual Assault, 2006, calcasapositionpapers.org)

“Placing restrictions on the location of correctionally supervised sex offender residences may not deter the sex offender from re-offending and should not be considered as a method to control sexual offending recidivism.” (Report on Safety Issues Raised by Living Arrangements for and Location of Sex Offenders in the Community; Colorado Department of Public Safety, Division of Criminal justice, Sex Offender Management Board)

“....the number of sex offenders who are unaccounted for has doubled since the law went into effect.” (Iowa Coalition Against Sexual Assault)

“Housing restrictions have passed in most localities with little resistance. Child safety is rightly the primary concern when sex offender restrictions are imposed. It seems to make sense that decreasing access to potential victims would be a feasible strategy to preventing sex crimes. There is no evidence, however, that such laws are effective in reducing recidivistic sexual violence. On the other hand, such laws aggravate the scarcity of housing options for sex offenders, forcing them out of metropolitan areas and farther away from the social support, employment opportunities and social services that are known to aid offenders in successful community re-entry.” (Sex offender residence restrictions. A Report to the Florida Legislature, October 2005, Jill S. Levinson, Ph.D.)
"The proliferation of these types of [residency] restrictions is making it more difficult for corrections to fulfill their mandate of helping offenders make a successful reentry into society," (Charles Olney, a research associate for the Center for Sex Offender Management, an affiliate of the U.S. Justice Department)
"It is sad 20th Century Commentary that society views the convicted felon as a social outcast. He has done wrong, so we rationalize and condone punishment in various forms. We express a desire for rehabilitation of the individual, while simultaneously we do everything to prevent it. Society cares little for the conditions which a prisoner must suffer while in prison, it cares even less for his future when he is released from prison. He is a marked man. We tell him to return to the norm of behavior, yet we brand him as virtually unemployable, he is required to live his normal activities severely restricted and we react with sickened wonder and disgust when he returns to a life of crime." (Former Chief Circuit Judge Donald Lay) email: rickysmom@rickyslife.com