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Georgia’s Women and Children Deserve Public Safety,

Not Political Posturing

SCHR Responds to Rep. Keen’s Reaction to the Mann Decision

Below is a statement from the Southern Center for Human Rights in response to the GA Supreme Court overturning the sex offender residency restrictions and Rep. Jerry Keen’s subsequent remarks. 

In June, 2006 the Southern Center for Human Rights filed a class action lawsuit in U.S. District Court challenging the residency and employment restrictions of Georgia’s sex offender legislation.  Since we filed this lawsuit, we have received an outpouring of support from probation officers and sheriffs’ deputies.  Among this group there is a growing realization that HB 1059 is a sloppy and counterproductive law.  Resources better spent on fighting crime are instead used to keep track of people who are being forced by the law to move over and over again.   Even legislators who voted for HB 1059 have called us, now that the depth of the law's folly has become clear. 

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