Saturday, October 17, 2009
sex offender went to elementary school
Louisana - Stephen Blackburn, 32, of 604 Gary St., Pineville, was arrested by deputies on a charge of failure to register as a sex offender. Sex offenders are not allowed to enter school property without the permission of the superintendent and principal.
No loitering within 300 feet of town or state park for sex offenders
If Town Meeting passes a bylaw restricting where Level 3 sex offenders may legally live in town, legislators will also be restricting where these felons may legally loiter.
“It shall be unlawful for a sex offender who has been convicted of a sex offense involving a child to knowingly be present in any town or state park.” The restriction, if passed, would also prohibit these offenders from being within 300 feet of a town or state park. The added section on loitering does not, however, specifically address loitering in the vicinity of a school or daycare center and makes no mention of protections for the elderly.
Under the language of the proposed bylaw, police would be given the authority to enforce the loitering provisions, and violators would be slapped with a $300 non-criminal fine for every day they are in violation.
“It shall be unlawful for a sex offender who has been convicted of a sex offense involving a child to knowingly be present in any town or state park.” The restriction, if passed, would also prohibit these offenders from being within 300 feet of a town or state park. The added section on loitering does not, however, specifically address loitering in the vicinity of a school or daycare center and makes no mention of protections for the elderly.
Under the language of the proposed bylaw, police would be given the authority to enforce the loitering provisions, and violators would be slapped with a $300 non-criminal fine for every day they are in violation.
Friday, October 2, 2009
Another registered sex offender arrested at elementary school
Bruce Ivester Housley, 46, of Post Oak Road, Cookeville, was arrested Tuesday by Putnam Sheriff's Detective Jimmy Patterson after he allegedly dropped off a child at Northeast Elementary School.
The child is not Housley's biological child, and the detective said he also learned that Housley had "previously transported the child to and from the school on three other dates." Housley is also charged with violating sex offender residential restrictions by "living on the same property as two minor children" who are not his biological children, according to one warrant on file in the case.
Tennessee state law forbids registered sex offenders from being on school premises when children are present.
The child is not Housley's biological child, and the detective said he also learned that Housley had "previously transported the child to and from the school on three other dates." Housley is also charged with violating sex offender residential restrictions by "living on the same property as two minor children" who are not his biological children, according to one warrant on file in the case.
Tennessee state law forbids registered sex offenders from being on school premises when children are present.
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