Police delay enforcement of law pending case outcome
By: Import User
Updated: January 7, 2009
A federal judge has barred enforcement of an Arkansas law designed to keep sex offenders from living too close to schools or day-care centers until a legal challenge is resolved.
Last year, the state passed the law requiring high-risk sex offenders to move if they live within two-thousand feet of a school or day-care center.
Three men sued the Little Rock and Pine Bluff police departments and the state Department of Correction last month claiming the law violates their civil rights.
Officials say the order by U-S District Judge Susan Webber Wright means the law cannot be enforced until the challenge is decided.
