DENVER—The city of Englewood plans to appeal a judge’s decision striking a city ordinance limiting where convicted sex offenders can live.
City officials said Tuesday they also will ask legislators to propose a bill to ensure that local governments can pass such ordinances.
Englewood’s ordinance prohibited sexually violent predators and other severe types of sexual offenders from living within 2,000 feet of any school, park or playground, or 1,000 feet of any licensed day care center, recreation center or swimming pool.
Last week U.S. District Judge R. Brooke Jackson ruled that the ordinance left essentially nowhere in Englewood for them to live.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado has said the ruling could affect similar ordinances in Greenwood Village, Castle Rock, Lone Tree, Commerce City and Greeley.
