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FREEHOLDERS GIORDANO & DASE

  

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                   May 14, 2009                                                           609-677-0707

  

5/14/2009 1:55:00 P.M.

 

GIORDANO & DASE OUTRAGED BY NJ SUPREME COURT’S DECISION TO ALLOW SEX OFFENDERS TO LIVE NEAR SCHOOLS, PARKS AND PLAYGROUNDS

 

Freeholder At-Large Frank Giordano today joined with fourth district Freeholder Rich Dase to express their outrage over last week’s NJ Supreme Court decision to strike down a Galloway Township ordinance forbidding sex offenders from living within 2500 feet of schools, parks, playgrounds, and other areas where young children gather.

 

“As a school teacher I could not be more outraged by the NJ Supreme Court’s failure to protect our children,” said Freeholder Rich Dase. “The state allows gambling addicts to be banned from casinos; shouldn’t our children receive the same protection of eliminating the temptation of convicted sex offenders? Once again the NJ Supreme Court has shown how radical and out of step with New Jersey residents it has become.”

 

“Every parent in Atlantic County and throughout this state should be furious with the Court’s blatant disregard for the safety of our children,” said Freeholder Frank Giordano. “Atlantic County’s families deserve better and much safer communities than the ones the New Jersey Supreme Court is willing to provide them.”

 

Freeholder Frank Giordano recently sponsored a resolution which unanimously passed the Freeholder Board calling on the state legislature to pass the “Jessica Lunsford Act” which mandates stricter penalties for sexual predators and would require a mandatory minimum sentence of 25 years in prison and lifetime electronic monitoring of adults convicted of lewd or lascivious acts against a victim less than 12 years old.  It also creates “child protection zones.” The bill establishes child protection zones by making it a crime of the fourth degree for a sex offender whose risk of re-offense has been assessed as high to reside within proximity of an elementary or secondary school, playground or child care center. 

 

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