City seeks to limit rights of offenders after library rape
After an arrest in the rape of a 6-year-old boy at the New Bedford, Mass. city library late last month, the mayor drafted an ordinance to bar high-risk sex offenders from entering or coming within a certain distance of numerous public places.
Offenders caught inside a so-called safe zone would be fined and asked to leave it immediately. Those who refused would be arrested. David M. Siegel, a professor at the New England School of Law in Boston, said such a ban could raise constitutional issues. KATIE ZEZIMA in The New York Times.