Sexually violent predators: schools

The law expands child-proximity placement limits to day care centers while preserving existing placements if a day care center or private school opens later.

What the law does ​

• Bars covered conditionally released sexually violent predators from placement within one-quarter mile of an operating day care center, public school, or qualifying private K–12 school.
• Applies the restriction to people convicted of specified child sexual offenses or whom a court finds have a history of improper sexual conduct with children.
• Defines qualifying day care centers and private schools, including certain home-based private schools, based on their operation and public listing when placement is considered.
• Keeps an existing placement compliant if a day care center or private school is established after the placement is proposed, considered, or made.

Who it affects ​

• Sexually violent predators granted conditional release who meet the child-sex-offense or conduct criteria.
• Day care centers, public schools, private schools, and home-based private schools near potential release housing.
• The department and local officials involved in locating conditional-release housing.

Context ​

The placement limit applies only when the day care center or private school was operating when the placement location was first proposed or considered.