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Committee adopts 500-foot child-safety zones for highest-risk registrants in HB 460
Summary
The Criminal Justice and Public Safety committee adopted an amendment to House Bill 460 creating 500-foot child-safety zones for level‑3 registered sex offenders, with written-notice requirements and specified defenses; the committee then recommended the bill ought to pass as amended.
The Criminal Justice and Public Safety committee voted to adopt an amendment to House Bill 460 that establishes straight-line 500-foot "child-safety zones" measured from property boundaries around schools, day-care centers, public parks, playgrounds, swimming pools and active school bus stops and applies only to level‑3 (highest-risk) registered sex offenders.
Representative Sher, who moved the first amendment and later participated in debate on the substitute, described the measure’s reach: “it makes it a violation for a tier 2 or tier three sexual offender ... if the offender knowingly remains in an area within 100 ft of a school or child care facility after being requested to leave by [a] law enforcement officer unless the offender is engaged in constitutionally protected…
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