They published my letter in the paper today

[Valigator]

Posted March 27 2005

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There is no limit to the number of sexual offenders/predators who can establish residence in any given ZIP code. In lower income or high rental areas, this places a disproportionate number of offenders in ratio to the surrounding communities. This lowers property values, puts a burden on police and corrections resources, but most of all exposes our families and children to an unfair risk of convicted sexual offenders in any given area.

I propose the cities have a right to limit the number of convicted sexual offenders and predators who can establish residence to make these neighborhoods safer, thus having more supervision over them. If city officials had the guts to enforce this, the state would have to take a long, hard look at sentencing, interstate compact laws, incarceration, probation and deportation guidelines.

Lots of advertising is done on behalf of the welfare of children. But when judges and attorneys throw these offenders back in our neighborhoods, you have to wonder how safe they want our children to be.

When our children are bait for someone like the killer of Jessica Lundsford, it is way past the time to re-evaluate how we are going to deal with these people.