Illinois law prohibits people convicted of sex offenses involving minors from living within 500 feet of schools, playgrounds and day cares.
Some residents of the Joliet neighborhood spoke out about their concerns with the building in meetings that grew heated. Criminal justice experts and the company that provides the housing, though, counter that laws that restrict where sex offenders can live put the public more at risk by removing opportunities for affordable housing and increasing the risk of homelessness. This makes it more difficult for officials to monitor parolees and offer services essential for rehabilitation, they argue.
When they first learned of the building, city officials argued that housing sex offenders together violates state law, but they later learned that the provision had been declared unconstitutional by a federal judge. The judge ruled that the law violated the rights of the offenders who had served their time but were held for months or years longer because the Illinois Department of Correction could not find a place for them to live that complied with the state’s many restrictions.
Back in 2013, Los Angeles began planning to install a park in a city neighborhood in order to remove sex offenders in the area,. The plan for the tiny park barely allowed room for “two jungle gyms, some benches and a brick wall,” the newspaper reported. Nicholas noted that many states with laws restricting where sex offenders live do have provisions that allow offenders who established a residence prior to a park or school being built to stay in their home, but Illinois does not allow for that exception.
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