Columbia County Sex Offender Doesn’t Have to Move By Thanksgiving
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A 29-year-old Columbia County woman who is the face of a lawsuit challenging Georgia's crackdown on sex offenders will be allowed to stay in her home through Thanksgiving.
A 29-year-old Columbia County woman who is the face of a lawsuit challenging Georgia’s crackdown on sex offenders will be allowed to stay in her home through Thanksgiving.
Published: November 24, 2008
Updated: November 26, 2008
ATLANTA (AP) - A 29-year-old woman who is the face of a lawsuit challenging Georgia’s crackdown on sex offenders will be allowed to stay in her home through Thanksgiving.
A Columbia County judge ruled Monday that Wendy Whitaker can stay in her home while the federal challenge works its way through the legal system. Whitaker is the lead plaintiff in a challenge
that claims the new law is unconstitutional. She filed a lawsuit last week urging a judge to block the eviction.
Whitaker is on the sex-offender registry for having consensual oral sex with a 15-year-old classmate when she was 17. She was told in July by a sheriff’s deputy she had to leave her home because it
was within 1,000 feet of a day care center.
New rules ban sex offenders from living, working or loitering within 1,000 feet of just about anywhere children gather.
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