Title
Consider/Discuss/Act on an Ordinance Amending Chapter 70, "Offenses and Miscellaneous Provisions", Article IX, "Sex Offenders", of the Code of Ordinances of the City of McKinney, Texas to Include HOA Pools and Playgrounds and Extend Provisions to any Offender; and Providing for an Effective Date
Summary
COUNCIL GOAL: Safe & Secure Community
MEETING DATE: August 19, 2025
DEPARTMENT: Police Department
CONTACT: Joe Ellenburg, Chief of Police
RECOMMENDED CITY COUNCIL ACTION:
* Approval of ordinance.
ITEM SUMMARY:
* Significant changes to the current Chapter 70 "Offenses and Miscellaneous Provisions", specifically referencing areas of the Sex Offender Information to include:
1. Any person subject to register must abide by Child Safety Zone requirements.
2. Permanent residence is where person resides or intents to reside for (7) consecutive days, including house, townhouse, condo, apartment, duplex, hotel, motel, or extended stay facility.
3. Redefines what child safety zones are and provides much greater exclusions to where offenders can reside. It is now defined as Child Safety Zones, playground, school, video arcade, childcare center, library, skate park, commercial entertainment (indoor and outdoor), amenity center, CAC (Child Advocacy Center, gym, or fitness center. Public swimming pool now encompasses those under control of an HOA. Previously, it stated those were private.
4. Should the offender move and establish residency elsewhere, they would no longer be "grandfathered" in.
5. This affirmative defense shall not apply should the person required to register move from the residence established prior to their seventeenth (17th) birthday establish a residence elsewhere.
6. The affirmative defense shall not apply should the person establish residency elsewhere.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
* Ordinance No. 2010-08-029 adopted residency requirements for sex offenders
* Ordinance No. 2012-03-008 amended residency requirements for sex offenders
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