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Virginia Supreme Court rules that school boards decide whether sex offender can go on school property

By Douglas A. Berman

This local article, which is headlined "Schools can ban sex offenders," reports on an interesting ruling yesterday from the Virginia Supreme Court: School boards ? not judges ? have the final say about whether violent sex offenders or anyone else comes onto school property, according to a Supreme Court of Virginia opinion handed down Friday. The opinion, which was written by Justice Barbara Milano Keenan, reverses a decision from the Charlottesville Circuit Court allowing a sex offender to come onto Charlottesville public school property under certain conditions. Stacy Haney, a Richmond-based lawyer who represents the city?s School Board, said school supervision is vested in local school boards under the state?s Constitution. Haney said the Supreme Court?s opinion would be far-reaching...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on September 19, 2009 (boomark / email).