As much as it pains me to agree with the ACLU I will do it now.
Who would open a day care center near a halfway house anyway? I guess I am questioning the intelligence of both the operators and the parents taking their children there.
I agree with you. Some city council/other bureaucracy had to approve both the “safe” house and the day care center. One would think that when zoning a facility for children they’d have to look at whether places like this exist.
OTOH, I've got a problem with buffer zones for perverts. The evidence shows that they are willing to travel far outside their buffer zones, even cross country, for their victims.
I've also got a real problem with how "sex offenders" get classified. Some 19 year old punk who gets it on with a 14 year old slut really isn't a sex offender, but a jerk with poor judgment. Ditto for someone who has a little too much to drink and gets caught "watering" a curb while walking home some night. It is a far more responsible way to deal with a temporary inebriated situation than driving.
However, I've got a real problem with the type of sex offender the ACLU has a track record of protecting-- the real kind who prey on young children. IMHO, most of these s.o.b.s should either be hanged from the nearest lamp post or relocated permanently to a desert camp with barbed wire and guard towers along the Mexican border where they can dig ditches, build fences and be dressed in pink jumpsuits.