County Commission Considers Crackdown On Sex Offenders
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NEW PORT RICHEY (CBSMiami/AP) — A west Central Florida county wants to crack down on where sex offenders can live.
Commissioners in Pasco County are debating an ordinance prohibiting convicted sex offenders from living within 2,500 feet of schools, school bus stops, playgrounds, day care centers, libraries, nursing homes or assisted living facilities.
State law now sets that distance at 1,000 feet and applies it only to schools, playgrounds and day care centers.
The proposal is modeled after a Miami-Dade County ordinance that's being challenged in federal court by the American Civil Liberties Union.
If approved by the commission, the ordinance would restrict newly released offenders, but it would exclude the 871 registered sexual offenders currently residing in the county.
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