Milwaukee Common Council votes to remove sex offender residency restriction: “No longer any buffer zone”
MILWAUKEE — The Milwaukee Common Council voted on Wednesday, September 6th to all but eliminate the city’s residency restrictions for sex offenders, and there’s one sex offender in particular who likely played a big role in the change.
The council voted to remove a restriction as to where sex offenders can live. Currently, general sex offenders cannot live within 2,000 feet of schools, day cares or parks.
Due to a lawsuit against the city by sex offenders, Alderman Michael Murphy said the city had no choice but to change the rules. Murphy said the proposal still needs to be signed off on by Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, but he said the current 1,500-foot restriction limited Milwaukee sex offenders to only 115 homes that weren’t close to day cares or schools.
This is good since I am sure that not all offenders are a danger to the community.
Hear! Hear!
I don’t live in Milwaukee so this has nothing to do with me. Florida will continue to be the stupid a$$holes that they are and totally buck any effort by an SO to file a lawsuit to make better changes for themselves. So, the only hope is just to get the hell outta here. So I guess I can move to Milwaukee and have plenty of places to live now. I’ll freeze my butt off, but at least I’ll have plenty of living options.
This is true that all offenders are not a threat to society.