A convicted sex offender has filed a federal lawsuit challenging Muskego’s rules that restrict where he can live, or whether he can live in the city at all.
In the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Milwaukee, Ronald E. Schroeder said the city’s ordinances violates his constitutional rights by preventing his move from Waukesha to Muskego, where he has been invited to live at the home of a woman who is a longtime friend.
Schroeder, 50, is residing in Waukesha on a temporary living plan after his release from prison in March. He was convicted in 2008 of two counts of second-degree sexual assault of an unconscious person.
Seems they’re really still stuck in the dark ages up north.
I am all for an end to the residency restriction. but I’m not sure if I’d want this clown for my neighbor.
https://www.milwaukeemag.com/TheJoker/
Interesting that if he had been prosecuted in 1991 for his child’s murder, and he was getting out now, there would be no public outrage or issues whatsoever. A wife beater, girlfriend abuser, child abuser, child murderer… no problem. But a man who touches his sleeping girlfriend OMG.
A-lot of his past Karma seemed to have been reflected in his sentence. Hopefully his Karma doesn’t hurt our chances to eliminate residency restrictions in WI. Muskego’s restriction is 1250′ it is ripe for a lawsuit.
To bad the Joker didn’t hire Adele.
Wisconsin has a piecemeal approach. In some ways it’s good, because the statewide rules being present 10-15 years ago were going to be horrendous. But, the result has been communities having to go it alone, often competing to have harsher rules than their neighboring communities to keep registrants from moving across the boundary.
The most egregious part of these ordinances is the ‘original domicile’ rule, which means that you can’t establish a residence in a community unless you had lived there prior to your conviction. For me, that essentially means that I can never move from my current home if I want to live in SE Wisconsin. All the neighboring communities have original domicile rules meaning I can’t move there since I didn’t live there prior to my conviction. You’d think I could just move to the nearby town where I lived when convicted, but that won’t work since there are no allowable residences which are not too close to my victim’s home.
Even more odd, I can’t even move to a different home in my current town. I’m only allowed here because I’m grandfathered in. Since we also have an original domicile rule, I would be prohibited from establishing a new residence here.
This is crazy at its worst.
A few years ago a registered person In NY won the case so No residency restriction at all once off paper. No 1,000ft rule. No 1,998ft rule (LOL) and there has NOT BEEN ONE arrest since their unconstitutional law was overturn. It’s all about corrupt politics, not safety obviously.