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<br /> <br /> <br /> <br />Page 2 of 10 <br />On February 13, 2006, the city of Taylors Falls in Chisago County became the first community in Minnesota <br />to implement a sex offender residency restriction ordinance.* <br />Between 2006 and 2015, more than 30 additional Minnesota communities followed suit and implemented <br />sex offender residency restrictions laws (most with similar language to that of Taylors Fall s). The following <br />communities were identified in 2015 as having ordinances that, to some degree, restrict where certain <br />registered sex offenders may live or be in proximity to designated locations. Some restrictions apply to <br />certain (DOC) levels of offenders, or may apply to certain offenders (e.g. victim was a minor). <br />Albertville <br />Askov <br />Birchwood <br />Brainerd <br />Brooklyn Center <br />Chisago City <br />Chisago County <br />Cleveland <br />Cloquet <br />Cohasset <br />Cuyuna <br />Duluth <br />Eagle Lake <br />Elysian <br />Grand Rapids <br />Grasston <br />Kilkenny <br />Lake Crystal <br />Le Center <br />Lindstrom <br />Linwood Township <br />Mahtomedi <br />Mankato <br />Mapleton <br />Minnesota Lake <br />Moose Lake <br />Morristown <br />North Mankato <br />Otsego <br />Pine Island <br />Proctor <br />Rochester <br />Taylors Falls <br />Wyoming <br /> <br />(as of December, 2015)* <br />*See addendum for current communities. <br />It would be important to contact local communities for current details of their ordinances. <br />From the 1990’s through the present, individuals who have committed sex crimes have been the subject <br />of countless psychological, sociological, criminal justice and governmental agency studies. Consequently, <br />there is large body of research on these individuals that demonstrates that a number of commonly held <br />beliefs (myths) regarding recidivism are not true. The fact is, current research indicates that: <br />A) Sex offenders, as a group, reoffend much less than other criminal offenders.4 <br />B) 95% of sex offenses are committed by first-time offenders.5 <br />C) 93% of sex crimes are committed by offenders known to the victim, in a place familiar to the <br />vicitm.6 <br />In 2015, the Minnesota Sentencing Guidelines Commission published a report stating that the number of <br />individuals convicted of sexual crimes in 2014 who had “true prior CSC [Criminal Sexual Conduct] offenses <br />was 5%. This means that in 2014, 95% of all sex crimes were committed by first time offenders .7 The <br />report also indicated that a salient offense factor related to stranger on stranger offending was the use of <br />force. Of the 491 adjudicated cases in 2014, 70 offenses were against strangers and were placed in the <br />category of “Provision Force/Other.” Of these 70 offenses, eight were against children. These eight