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Victoria adopts 1,500-foot residency restriction for sex offenders convicted in crimes involving minors
Summary
The council voted to adopt an ordinance establishing 1,500-foot "child safety zones" around places where children gather and to bar convicted sex offenders whose crimes involved minors from establishing a residence inside those zones; current residents would be grandfathered.
Victoria City Council on Jan. 28 adopted an ordinance adding residency restrictions to Chapter 15 of the city code that prohibit convicted sex offenders whose offenses involved minors from establishing a temporary or permanent residence within 1,500 feet of locations where children commonly gather.
The ordinance creates mapped "child safety zones" around facilities such as public and private schools, licensed daycare centers, city parks and recreation centers and other areas identified as places where children congregate, and it makes it a violation for an offender with a qualifying conviction to move into those zones after leaving parole or probation.
Deputy Chief of Operations Clay Fetters of the Victoria Police Department, who presented the proposal, said the…
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