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MT - Bill would allow MT counties to vote on sex-offender placement

View the article here 02/19/2009 A bill brought before the Montana House Judiciary committee on Thursday would give counties the right to refuse taking sex offenders into prerelease centers. House Bill 552 would give county commissions the chance to vote on whether or not to allow the placement of sexual offenders at prerelease centers in their counties. MT State Representative Robert Mehlhoff (D-Great Falls) said that his bill adds oversight where there currently is none: "The only oversight that's being done is by an un-elected board that is arranged by the pre-release center, and I just think that we need a publicly-elected body to make sure that what Corrections is saying, they live up to." There were no proponents at the hearing today but a few opponents spoke against the bill...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues on February 19, 2009 (boomark / email).