This appears to violate the Wisconsin Supreme court decision in State v. William Dinkins, Sr.2-9-2014 Wisconsin:
RACINE — Roger Clawson is supposed to be free. He’s not.
Clawson, a convicted sex offender, served his time and was supposed to be released from the New Lisbon Correctional Institution on Jan. 28. He was released on schedule, but his release was not to freedom. It was to the Racine County Jail. There was nowhere else for him to go.
“It was a rather depressing situation,” he said about finding out the jail was his only housing option. “All I wanted was a place to live.”
Municipal ordinances have become so restrictive on where registered sex offenders like Clawson can live in the county that state officials have directed the jail to hold him. It’s not clear how or when he’ll get out.
This is a new problem resulting from recent sex offender ordinances and it’s concerning, said Lt. Dan Adams of the Racine County Sheriff’s Office.
No options
In early January, Clawson, 59, was planning on moving into a transitional residence in the 2100 block of Racine Street in Mount Pleasant. Then those plans changed when the Mount Pleasant Village Board passed an ordinance Jan. 13 greatly restricting where sex offenders can live. That ordinance came on the heels of similar ordinances passed in Racine, Sturtevant and Caledonia.
