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Residents urge McKinney to extend sex-offender residency rules to private HOAs
Summary
Several residents asked the McKinney City Council to amend a city ordinance after a convicted sex offender moved into a private-hoa neighborhood with playgrounds and a pool, saying current rules do not restrict residency in privately run amenity neighborhoods.
Several residents told the McKinney City Council on Aug. 19 they want the city to expand a residency restriction ordinance for registered sex offenders so it covers privately run homeowners associations.
At a public-comment period before the council’s regular agenda, Haley Wilcox, who lives at 1304 Timberline, said a convicted child pornography offender recently moved into her neighborhood even though it contains a playground and pool. Wilcox said she learned from McKinney police detectives that the city’s current ordinance does not apply to private HOAs. “A vile man who has perpetuated the [sexual] abuse of children now lives 11 doors down from where my daughters…
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