This is good news for registrants from Mansfield.
http://www.mansfieldnewsjournal.com/story/news/local/2014/12/17/local-facility-house-homeless-sex-offenders/20564475/
Local facility to house homeless sex offenders
Mark Caudill 8:06 p.m. EST December 17, 2014
MANSFIELD – The Richland County Community Corrections Board approved a change Wednesday to admit some homeless county sex offenders to a local facility.
Nothing Into Something Real Estate is a faith-based nonprofit agency with headquarters in Columbus. Representatives from the group proposed two changes at Wednesday’s meeting.
One change would expand the eligibility for the exit program, now located on East Cook Road, to admit some homeless Richland County sex offenders who committed their crimes locally.
Target populations include homeless sex offenders convicted of failure to register and those who have completed Volunteers of America sex offender treatment.
No sex offenders will be accepted from other counties. The program will provide housing and monitoring, with treatment to be referred to existing local agencies.
The measure passed unanimously.
“It’s hard to keep track of a guy who has no residence,” Common Pleas Judge Brent Robinson said.
Robinson said Judge James DeWeese, who was ill Wednesday, drafted the language.
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