The Iowa Supreme Court has ruled that the state’s 2,000 foot sex offender residency restriction doesn’t violate offenders’ due process rights. The law bars offenders whose victims are children from living within 2,000 feet of schools and daycares.
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It’s just one more among many reasons the Legislature won’t touch the ‘get tough’ law with a 10-foot poll next year, even though prosecutors and law enforcement groups say it’s a bad statute that does little to keep kids safe. They contend it actually makes the already difficult job of tracking offenders tougher.
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