Federal Court Blocks Iowa Sex Offender Registration Law
Congratulations to the Iowa Civil Liberties Union which won its federal lawsuit today challenging a sex offender banishment law.
A federal judge issued an order Friday blocking enforcement of a state law that prohibits sex offenders from living within 2,000 feet of a school or day care center.
The lawsuit said the requirement makes it nearly impossible for an offender to find a place to live ``because there is virtually no place in towns or urban areas in Iowa that is not within 2,000 feet of a school or daycare center.''
The Judge will decide in September whether to make the termporary restraining order permanent. He also allowed the civil liberties group to include prosecutors as defendants.
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