Here in California registered sex offenders on parole may not live within 2,000 feet of a school or public park. The logic sounds fine: Child molesters and rapists shouldn't be around children. Especially violent ones. Doesn't seem anything wrong with that. But there are problems. The range limitations leaves little space for sexual offenders to actually live. So they get clustered together in the few places they actually can live. And here is where more problems start to surface. People don't like sex offenders living near them. [url=http://www.contracostatimes.com/california/ci_22697176/la-building-parks-evict-sex-offenders]So cities are building "pocket parks" to force sex offenders to move.[/url] And this makes me face palm. These people created the problem of sex offenders getting clumped together by so harshly restricting where they could live and now that they are getting clumped together they say "Not in my neighborhood" and throw them out? As disgusting as their crimes may be, they paid their dues to society with the they time served. Creating "pocket parks" to drive them out of town is no less than punishing them twice for the same crime. Three times if you count the fact that they will never achieve a life anywhere close to what they once had. What's worse is by throwing them out of town to make the town safer they are doing the exact opposite. Throwing them out of town by creating "pocket parks" to break up the clusters of sex offenders just leaves sex offenders with no places to live and makes them homeless. A third of sex offenders are already homeless due to the highly restrictive nature of being a sex offender and these people are pushing more to become homeless by giving them no place to live. What's worse is that homeless sex offenders have a higher recidivism rate. So they are actually making the problem worse.