Police have a plan for keeping offenders away from children
By Steve Bauer
Sunday May 14, 2006
Vanda Bidwell
Champaign police department records clerk Paula Mullvain with the map showing areas of town banned for sex offenders. They must not live within 500 feet of schools, playgrounds or day care facilities.
Do you live near a school, playground or day care center?
If you do, there are laws that are intended to prevent child sex criminals from living nearby.
But the laws are not always clear on some terms – such as what constitutes a park or day care center. Different jurisdictions handle such enforcement differently and, so far, locally, it's been rare for prosecutors to file charges.
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