CT: New Fairfield proposes ordinance to ban sex offenders from public places frequented by children

Source: newstimes.com 10/16/23

NEW FAIRFIELD — The town is proposing a new ordinance that, if adopted, would ban convicted sex offenders from public places frequented by children.

With the goal of preserving and promoting “the health, safety and general welfare of the children” and protecting them from “the threat of sexual abuse from sex offenders,” the proposed ordinance would “enact reasonable regulations restricting sex offenders from entering child safety zones,” according to the text of New Fairfield’s draft sex offender ordinance.

The idea for the ordinance came from local law enforcement,  First Selectman Pat Del Monaco said.

“It was a request for our police department to be consistent with other towns, and the Board of Selectmen moved it forward,” she said. “There were some concerns the police department had in a couple of individual cases, which I can’t really discuss, but that was the reason they asked us to pursue this.”

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🤔Hmmm. “There were some concerns the police department had in a couple of individual cases, which I can’t really discuss….”

I suspect this is euphemistic language meaning “Of course, I cannot provide any details because I am just making this sh*t up.”
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There is nothing reasonable about the proposed ordinance. Nor would it do anything to protect the “safety and general welfare” of any children.

How is this going to be enforced? Does every man, woman, and child have to be ID checked by a permanent cop posted in every public area that are frequented by children? What about sexual predators that are not on the Registry? How does that work or more importantly how does it NOT work?

Either way I feel a very expensive lawsuit should cure this stupidity.

Gee, if only there were a civil liberties organization that was getting really good at suing the pants off of these fine communities and using the legal fees paid or any damages awarded to grow really, really big and to become the ACLU of “sex offender” issues!

Due to a couple of cases that cause “concern” from the pigs let’s enact blanket bans just to pretend to keep children safe. Ironic coming from the Constitution State because bans are in line with tyranny and not freedom.

This is one of the wealthiest towns in America. I guarantee that what happened is someone with obvious behavioral issues is continually hanging out at a park, parents complained, turns out he has a sex offense (likely among several other non-sexual offenses) and the police feel there’s nothing they can do except press for the city to pass an overly broad, unconstitutional law because they’re scared if they arrest him for being a nuisance that they’ll be sued. We literally have the dumbest possible criminal justice system.