(Source: Texas Public Policy Foundation) This article, written by Mike Ward, originally appeared in the Houston Chronicle on November 9, 2015. Forty-six small cities across Texas are facing a new legal challenge to their ordinances regulating where registered sex offenders can live, the latest development in a national trend to relax residency limitations that opponents say create more problems with ex-convicts than they solve. On Monday, Texas Voices for Reason and Justice, a statewide criminal-justice advocacy group, announced it has 'initiated action to compel, through litigation if necessary,' the repeal of the ordinances in so-called 'general law' cities - those with populations of...
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