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NC - $1,800,000 In Public Money for IFC Shelter, But Nowhere For Sex Offenders To Find Shelter?

The following was sent to us via email. Today we are releasing a video that highlights a serious consequence of the backroom deal to site the homeless shelter. Please take a few minutes to watch, comment on, and share this video PLEASE MARK MARCH 21ST ON YOUR CALENDAR AND LET US KNOW IF YOU CAN BE PART OF OUR PRESENTATION GROUP Throughout our campaign for A BETTER SITE for the men's shelter in Chapel Hill, some advocates of the Interfaith Council (IFC) proposal to locate a facility at Homestead and MLK have sought to cast us as "NIMBY" (not in my backyard) neighbors, as one local media source put it. A member of the Town Council has lectured us to "not create a bogeyman." An IFC staff member has even gone so far as to say that we want "these men to leave our town as defeated men with their heads held down...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues on March 01, 2011 (boomark / email).