“A hundred registered sex offenders live closer to schools than the law allows. Lane does nothing, despite repeated complaints from police.” – From 2006 Prater campaign commercial, “Ask a Police Officer”
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) Oklahoma County District Attorney David Prater says language in the state’s current sex-offender law make parts of it “almost unenforceable.”
Prater says the law — which prohibits sex offenders from living within 2,000 feet of a school, park or day-care center — requires prosecutors to prove that an offender knowingly moved into a restricted area.
That’s something he says is “incredibly difficult” and it has kept Oklahoma County prosecutors from charging anyone under that section of the law.
