The City Council on Tuesday approved an ordinance urged by Councilman Mike Touhey that calls for the electronic tracking of registered sex offenders.
"We want to make sure that they are not loitering in places like playgrounds," Touhey said. "We are trying to strengthen our laws to protect our residents."
Among the council- approved code amendments that creates more restrictions on where sex offenders can live and loiter are:
Cannot live within 2,000 feet of child care centers.
Cannot have multiple sex offenders living together in multi-family
dwellings, hotels, motels and inns, and extends the prohibition beyond a sex offender's parole.
Declares it a public nuisance for owners and their authorized agents to knowingly rent to more than one registered sex offender.
Makes it a misdemeanor for a registered sex offender to loiter within a 300-foot radius of child care centers, public and private schools, school bus stops, parks, public libraries, swimming pools and children's playgrounds.
Currently, neither state nor local law prohibits loitering near places where children congregate, according to the staff report.
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