Sex Offender Bill

Title: Sex Offender Bill
Category: Law & Government / Government & Politics | Words: 559 | Pages: 2.4 (approximately 235 words/page)

Sex Offender Bill

In Oklahoma City on February 11, 2003 a measure that would prohibit sex offenders from living within a mile of any school got an easy backing from a state legislative panel. But the House Criminal Justice Committee balked at a bill to make consensual sex the crime of rape if it occurs between a minor 16 or 17 and an adult 25 or older. House Bill 1501 by Rep. Kevin Cox, D-Oklahoma City, would forbid any registered sex offender from establishing …showed first 75 words of 559 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 559 total…average annual cost of ,000 to house, clothe and feed a convict and provide him with medical care, that amounts to an overall average cost of 2,000 to imprison a rapist. Braddock suggested the Legislature revisit the statutory rape question when the economic outlook is brighter, and apparently a majority of the Criminal Justice Committee concurred. A motion to “report progress” on HB 1045 – shelve the bill but not kill it or advance it – passed on a 4-3 vote.

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