Challenge to Barre ordinance expected

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The first Vermont municipality to pass an ordinance restricting where sex offenders may live within its borders is expected to draw a legal challenge.

The Barre City Council approved the ordinance on Tuesday evening – but the city clerk says the action must be redone because the ordinance wasn’t advertised as needed in the local newspaper.

The ordinance says registered sex offenders may not move to a residence within one-thousand feet of a school, park or playground. And those places will be off-limits to the 45 sex offenders already living in the city.

The executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s Vermont chapter Allen Gilbert says he believes the ordinance soon will be challenged in court.

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