11-14-17 Michigan:
GRAND RAPIDS, MI - Three Grand Rapids men on Michigan's Sex Offender Registry have settled a federal lawsuit against the state over housing requirements that restrict where they can live.
They had been told they could not live in homes that were within 1,000 feet of a school zone.
Attorney Sarah Riley Howard challenged the school-zone law as vague, and said it is confusing. The settlement comes after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear a similar Michigan case.
One of her clients, she said, was told by Grand Rapids Police Department that he and his wife could buy a house only to be told later it fell within a school zone. ..Continued..
November 14, 2017
Sex offenders settle lawsuit over living in 'school zones'
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