Commerce City’s solution to deciding where sex offenders can live is a model for how communities can reasonably handle residency requirements.
Commerce City on Monday passed an amendment to its residency requirements, allowing registered sex offenders who aren’t sexually violent to seek exceptions to rules that ban them from living within 1,000 feet of a school, park, playground or day care center. Full Op-Ed Piece
I see this as a case of not having equal access to the towns election polls to change the laws.
There is an election coming up next month, and how many registrants have their assigned polling place in a school and will be committing a crime when exercising their constitutional right to vote?
Suppose there will be follow up report next year revealing how many applications were either granted or refused along with a map designating the area’s these people were given the opportunity to move into in order to prove no bias was shown? I don’t think so. This