Sex-Offender Free Subdivisions

3 August 2006 - 4:00am

New trends in home development and technologies are helping people avoid living near a sex offender.

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"Hundreds of cities and 15 states have laws that restrict where sex offenders can live. Now, private businesses are getting into the act of protecting residents from this group, too.

A Texas developer, for instance, is building "sex offender free subdivisions" here and in Kansas, and a new national website, started by a Texan, lists homes for sale that have no registered sex offenders living within a half-mile radius.

It's all part of a wide-ranging effort to address Americans' concerns about sex offenders living next door."

Source: The Christian Science Monitor, July 28, 2006