46 cities face challenge to sex-offender residency laws
Mike Ward | on November 9, 2015
Texas Voices for Reason and Justice, a statewide criminal-justice advocacy group, announced Monday it has” initiated action to compel, through litigation if necessary,” the repeal of the ordinances in so-called “general law” cities — the latest challenge to the residency limitations in Texas and across the country.
In 2007, then-Attorney General Greg Abbott clarified that under a state law that “general law” cities with a population of 5,000 residents or less cannot enact local ordinances that regulate where registered sex offenders can live, according to the group.