Dyersville, the field of We Don't Care:
The state's top sheriffs, police and prosecutor associations contend Iowa's existing state and local residency requirements are nothing but feel-good laws, which heap work on law enforcement while doing nothing to make children more safe.
But the City Council in Dyersville went all the way, banning all convicted sex offenders from living anywhere in the northeast Iowa town of just more than 4,000.
"Our responsibility as the mayor and the City Council is to protect the citizens," Dyersville Mayor Jim Heavens said in defense of the controversial move. "Where sex offenders go afterward is not our problem."
Sounds remarkably like several David Yepsen columns on the subject...
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