ACLU suing county about sex offender residency restrictions

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http://www.npr.org/2014/10/23/358354...-sex-offenders

another link here

http://www.newser.com/story/197739/s...iami-aclu.html
and here

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/201...r-encampments/

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The ACLU's argument is more or less is that forcing these individuals into homelessness will make them more likely to reoffend (since it will make prison more attractive than their current life.) Of course, the very intent of this ordinance was to give people a choice of either being homeless or leaving the county. There is only one equivalent I'm aware of where a similiar thing is done against non-sex offenders, and it takes place in Georgia.
In Georgia, for in case you're not aware, it's a common practice to exile all criminals and not just sex offenders. In order to get around some phrase in the Georgia constitution prohibiting banishment "beyond the limits of this state", the judges in Georgia will forbid the criminal from living anywhere in the state but one county. The county where the criminal will not be banned from will be some virtually uninhabited county in the middle of the Okefnokee Swamp. Of course, the criminal will always move to another state and become somebody else's problem rather than live with the alligators in the Okefnokee. The judges in Georgia always claim that the banishment is meant to keep a criminal away from his criminal friends and that it's not to just make the criminal somebody else's problem. I don't think anybody believes the judges when they say that though.