H 1342: – The Housing Committee held a hearing on legislation that would prohibit Level 2 and Level 3 sex offenders from being placed in public housing in Massachusetts. The bill is similar to a 1998 federal law that bans some sex offenders from federally subsidized housing.
“[The bill] is common-sense legislation that would extend the same protections that are currently in place for residents of federally-subsidized public housing to tenants living in state-subsidized public housing,” said sponsor Rep. Brad Jones (R-North Reading).”
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What is interesting, is there trying to pass a bill to prevent PFR’s from being placed in public housing. But the next bill below it, is to prevent bullying in public housing! Wouldn’t you say that preventing somebody from public housing, is bullying?