Small Texas Cities Face Challenge over Restrictions on Sex Offenders

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Small Texas Cities Face Challenge over Restrictions on Sex Offenders

Monday, February 15, 2016
 
Gladden argues that the general welfare statute doesn’t delegate the authority for general law cities to pass sex offender residency restrictions, and 20 Texas towns agreed and repealed their ordinances after receiving Gladden’s demand letter. “People are so fearful of protecting their children,” he says. “It’s instinctual, and they become so overwhelmed by it that they don’t use their heads to implement policy that actually makes children safer. They instead respond to hysterical fear and implement policies that make children less safe as they push child molesters off the grid.”