The Mayor and Common Council desires to impose safety precautions in furtherance of the compelling interest of protecting children from registered sex offenders by restricting registered sex offenders' access to locations where children regularly gather. The Mayor and Common Council finds that registered sex offenders pose a clear threat to the children residing in or visiting the community. It is the intent of the restrictions in this Chapter to reduce the threat that registered sex offenders pose to these children by limiting the ability of registered sex offenders to be in contact with these children on Halloween, the evening of October 31st
Currently, state law does not address the areas that registered sex offenders can frequent, focusing only on where registered sex offenders can reside. This Chapter is not intended to conflict with, but to supplement, state law by imposing additional restrictions on the locations where registered sex offenders may reside, imposing restrictions on the locations where registered sex offenders may frequent, and imposing reasonable time, place and manner restrictions on registered sex offenders' contact with children