Mass. Supreme Court strikes down residency laws; Compares them to Japanese internment camps
Although this court decision will not help us here in Texas, it is so encouraging to see the dominoes beginning to fall!
This morning the highest court in Massachusetts struck down residency restrictions in Lynn, Massachusetts! Kudos to the ACLU of Massachusetts who filed suit to challenge the law in 2012. National RSOL was right beside them—criticizing the law in a friend-of-the-court (amicus) brief and joined by the Florida Action Committee, the Jacob Wetterling Resource Center and two sex offender treatment groups–the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers and the Massachusetts Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers.
Metro West News: Mass. high court shoots down city’s residency restrictions on sex offenders
Read the court’s decision:
http://www.mass.gov/courts/docs/sjc/reporter-of-decisions/new-opinions/11822.pdf
Info. about the case including a copy of the amicus brief:
https://aclum.org/cases-briefs/three-registered-sex-offenders-v-city-of-lynn/
Video of the oral arguments: