Sex offenders running out of room
Are sex offenders going to move from the city into the suburbs? County Commissioners think so.
A study done at Commissioner Todd Portune's request indicates that Cincinnati's new law banning sex offenders from living near day care centers, public pools and other facilities, leaves them with few places to live in Cincinnati. That means their next address could be in the 'burbs.
The Enquirer wrote a story on the issue Tuesday.
View this county-generated map to see the off-limits areas in Cincinnati. The map also indicates which surrounding communities are home-rule, and therefore could pass similar legislation.
This Hamilton County memo lists the county's findings based on the geographic analysis.
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Post a Comment*We hear Indian Hill, Madeira, Loveland and all of Butler, Warren, and Clermont counties are very accommodating and welcoming !
Very protective, as well, as they will close down election locations if there is the slightest bit of moisture in the air !
Just because Todd Portune wants sex offenders to go to "bedroom" communities - nice Freudian choice of words by the way - doesn't mean they will.
Perhaps this was the Portune/Pepper way of sending the message to their sex offender voters that they should seek out "bedroom" communities.
The culture of corruption continues as the wRong wingnut whackos lobby to circumvent any law regarding livable locations for sex offenders!
Rumpke's would be a great location for all sex offenders!
PATHETIC !
HAD ENOUGH, VOTE DEMOCRAT 2007 !
Monzel's the one who's sending them to the bedroom communities with his ridiculous law. His Countywide aspirations (let alone the fact that he's created a law where these offenders will be moving from OTR to the residential parts of Westwood, College Hill and Hyde Park) have been destroyed forever.
What a fool!
Three cheers for Pepper and Portune. Let's keep the sex offenders in Cincinnati where they belong. Not in our nice suburbs.
Bush refuses to fund the troops !
PATHETIC !
HAD ENOUGH, VOTE DEMOCRAT 2007 !
Our surgicallly neutered bold typist may have previously been a sex offender.
"....bold typist may have previously been a sex offender...."
You don't find it offensive every time we put it to your intellect !
Duh, in fact, you come back begging for more !
PATHETIC !
HAD ENOUGH, VOTE DEMOCRAT 2007 !
The Hamilton COunty Board of Commissioners has been against exactly this type of "BAND-AID" solution in government that only SHIFTS THE PROBLEM, NOT FIX THE PROBLEM
County residents should be furious with Monzel for pushing off a city problem unto US in the county.
Monzel next time you want to sweep your floors - sweep it under your own rug.
The Monzel strategy to addressing the issue is to make it someone else's problem -- great job Monzel!
I live in Westwood, the sex offenders are already there (I have a stack of postcards from Simon Leis to prove it). I don't think Westwood is one of the suburbs Portune was referring to.
Pepper & Portune want to keep them all in the city. Period.
Actually, suburbs are both in the City (like Westwood and Hyde Park) and outside in the County. Monzels ordinance will push offenders to BOTH, and remove them from the more central parts of the City.
Monzel's ordinance will spread the offenders largely from the inner city areas where there are many apartments and more government services (OTR, West End, etc.) and where they mostly now live, to the more residential parts of the County, including the residential neighborhoods of the City itself. Just look at the exclusion map Monzel himself created-where it leaves the residential parts of the "suburbs" within Cincinnati mostly as places that are ok for offenders to live.
In other words, anyone from Westwood or Hyde Park cheering Monzel's ordinance has not looked at the map, or the fact that they are probably more likely to get new offenders than anyone else in the County. The most dramatic effect will likely be to take people from the 45202 area code (where there now is almost no place where they can live) and move them to other parts of the City that are not excluded (largely residential areas), as well as suburbs in the County.
Hmmm, I thought the city was part of the county. I guess Pepper & Portune dont really care about the city residents, only the ones with money in the county. I am sure though Pepper & Portune were happy to get my city vote the last time... and it WAS the LAST time I will vote for either of them.
As a city resident, Monzel works for ME so I am glad he is looking out for MY interests and HE will get my City vote.
Look closely at the Monzel map, CityVoter. He's sending sex offenders from, largely, the 45202 area code, to residential neighborhoods throughout the City and County. Some inner city neighborhoods may cheer Monzel on, but not people who live in the larger residential neighborhoods of the City. This has the same impact, long-term, as the tearing down of Lincoln and Laurel Homes in the 1990s----the first stop will be the other neighborhoods IN THE CITY ITSELF that aren't in exclusion zones, and that's going to be the more suburban/residential neighborhoods of the City.
Monzel's law is a train wreck. He did nothing here to help City residents. He should have focused on the VOA problem, which both Pepper and Portune discussed.
I think we should have a setting for those that were original residents when they offended - not those being shipped into cinti via the prior conservatives - right next to the new criminal justice complex - isolated, away fromschools, close to supervision and howpefully they'll re-locate probation officers on the other side of them.
bring on this darn criminal justice complex before another kid is harmed
JUST BUILD IT 2007
I guess Monzel's chief of (a two-person) staff Bradford P. Beckett is the valedictorian of Mike Harlow's "How to Kill YOur Boss' Political Career" seminar.
Bob McEwen and Sam Malone would be so proud.
Leslie Ghiz and John Eby will be the only endorsed Republicans on the city council.
Put'em in the desert.
Mon-zealot is the typical, self-serving, wRong wingnut whacko !
He works for the city !
The city pays his salary !
The city votes for him !
Makes sense that he would attempt to move the riff-raft away from the city !
After all, the high priced condos, that his campaign contributors are building, are more important than sex offenders moving to the west-side !
Just a little butter for your Melba-TOAST !
PATHETIC !
HAD ENOUGH, VOTE DEMOCRAT 2007 !
The surgically neutered bold typist may really be a sex offender.
I understand protecting the community, but when someone's level of threat is low, wouldn't the taxpayer's dollars be better spent stopping the real threat? Or do we blindly follow a label.
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