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Escambia Bus Stop Sex Offender Proposal Advances
April 21, 2011
The Escambia County School District will move forward and advertise changes to bus stops around the homes of registered sex offenders.
After advertising the proposed changes to the district’s transportation policy, the board will vote on the new policies at their May meeting.
The new rules would lower the distance between bus stops and some sex offenders. Under the current policy, bus stops are not allowed within 1,000 feet of a registered offender or predator’s home. That policy, according to district officials, forces some children to walk long distances to a bus stop, perhaps putting them in greater risk of contact with a sex offender.
Across Escambia County, officials say 44 percent of all public school children live within 1,000 feet of a registered sex offender.
The new policy under consideration would follow current state law by keeping bus stops 1,000 or more feet from a sexual predator or offender being monitored by the state. But in the case of other offenders, the limit would be lowered to 100 feet.
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2 Responses to “Escambia Bus Stop Sex Offender Proposal Advances”
REGARDING:
” our school district uses this so they don’t have to drive a little bit to pick up some children ”
It shouldn’t affect how far the school district has to drive, just how far the children have to walk to a pick up point. They already don’t force children to walk as far as they could in most cases.
There ARE some roads they won’t drive down because they can’t be sure the bus will make it because the county doesn’t maintain them well enough. But that won’t change until the roads do.
Anyhoo, you can see from this that the proposal would stop forcing children to walk as far from their homes to get to a stop. It wouldn’t make them walk further.
David not understanding the complaint
This is such a joke our school district uses this so they dont have to drive a little bit to pick up some children my middle school child walks so far down empty roads real safe right even though they are older and alot that walk so far as a group. The school told me that it was for this reason. Then when I asked them how come elementry and high school get picked up closer they gave me a number to call and no one ever calls back. the elementry even made a stop across the street from one of these people so what ever the school system is planning it is just some way to save a but they dont really care about childrens saftey.