Georgia's Sex Offender Housing Laws Overturned

This law basically amounted to exile from the state, as it prohibited "registered sex offenders from living within 1,000 feet of schools, churches and other areas where children congregate", and the Georgia supreme court has ruled it unconstitutional.

There were a number of problems with the law:

• It applied to all sex offenders, so people who were no threat to children, like indecent exposure, public sex or lewdness (like Larry Craig), etc. were covered.
• It covered 150,000 school bus stops in the state, making it's coverage too broad.
• As the court noted, offenders obeying the law, "face the possibility of being repeatedly uprooted and forced to abandon homes."

Honestly, it's not like pedophiles can't drive. I understand that the case that brought this on was a sex offender that was living near a day care center and re-offended, but this should be handled through the corrections process, such as longer sentences, and probation conditions.