BRUNSWICK, Ohio - Registered sex offenders in Brunswick are now banned from a number of city-owned facilities.
Parent and Brunswick Recreation Center member Glenda Zaffle said that she agrees with city’s new ordinance that bans sex offenders from entering the facility or using the city parks.
Iowa lawmakers are working on new rules for nursing homes, residential care facilities and assisted living centers. The proposed changes have to do with sex offenders.
The bill making its way through the state house would require the homes and facilities to check the sex offender registry. If an offender is discovered, every single staff member, resident and resident's family would have to be notified. Also, a plan of safety would have to be put in place to protect staff, residents and their families.
If an offender asks to move into or has a court order to move into a nursing home, assisted living center or residential care, the director or owner must give their approval. The bill also gives homes and facilities the opportunity to deny sex offenders. In that case, the Department of Human Services will be notified, so they can find a spot for the offender.
The bill passed the house unanimously. A senate sub-committee has also recommended approval.
Only a few hundred feet from the latest encampment of sexual offenders, who were banished to a sidewalk in Miami’s Shorecrest neighborhood, is a little piece of mostly barren city-owned land, about 100-by-40 feet, filled with a couple of old rusted toys and a metal carport frame.
Welcome to Miami’s new “Little River Pocket Park,’’ a sod-challenged pop-up park never envisioned in any master plan, but created by City Commissioner Marc Sarnoff in a clever bid to keep more offenders from moving to the area.
“I can’t dislodge those who are there,’’ Sarnoff, who represents the district, told The Miami Herald. “But this is to prevent any further sexual offenders from being put there by the state.”