By Richard C. Dujardin
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A Superior Court judge has rejected a suit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union against a law requiring registered sex offenders to live at least 300 feet away from a school.
Judge Sarah Taft-Carter issued the ruling on Friday on a suit brought by the ACLU on behalf of three sex offenders who were told by Providence police in June that they had to move because they were too close to a school. They were later told they could stay pending the court's decision.
Attorney General Peter F. Kilmartin applauded the ruling, saying parents send their children to school "never imagining they may be in close proximity to a sexual predator."