Thursday, March 22, 2007

Why Does the ACLU Think Sexual Predators Have More Rights than Children? By Jay Sekulow

In a recent series of cases in New Jersey, the ACLU has opposed legitimate efforts to protect children from sexual predators who attempt to live in their neighborhoods. The ACLJ is now representing the Township of Galloway, New Jersey, in the defense of an important law designed to protect children against convicted sex offenders. Not surprisingly, the ACLU has filed a lawsuit claiming that the ordinance designed to protect children violates several of New Jersey’s constitutional provisions.

The Township of Galloway, like many other communities in New Jersey, enacted Ordinance No. 1616 to serve as a buffer zone for children, forbidding convicted sex offenders (over age 18) from residing within 2500 feet of any school, park, playground or day care center in Galloway Township. This kind of stay-away zone makes sense.

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