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Residency Restrictions Cause Homelessness to Increase Among Registered Sex Offenders in Arizona
Loaded on Aug. 22, 2016
by Matthew Clarke
It is well known that restrictions on where registered sex offenders (RSOs) are permitted to reside in Miami resulted in the creation of an RSO camp under the Julia Tuttle Causeway. PLN recently reported that the RSOs who were removed from that camp and offered temporary housing leases were …
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