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O.K. to Ban Suspicious Indiana Sex Offender from Parks
Loaded on Sept. 15, 2007
published in Prison Legal News
September, 2007, page 44
The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals held that a registered sex offender who had been observed behaving suspiciously could be permanently banned from a city?s parks.
Filed under:
Sex Offenders (Discrimination),
Sex Offender Residence,
State Statutes,
Zoning.
Location:
Indiana.
Robert Brown, a registered sex offender who had a single conviction for child molestation, was observed by park officials in Michigan City, Indiana?s Washington …
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