Text defines 500-foot zones around child care and other sites

The text defines a community safety zone as an area within 500 feet of listed sites, including licensed child care centers, licensed group family day care homes, and registered family day care. The listed sites also include abuse and assault shelters, public parks, playgrounds and pools, and schools. The zone includes the site's grounds and facilities.

A person required to register as a sex offender may not establish or live at a residence inside a community safety zone unless an exception applies. Exceptions include incarceration or assigned supervised housing in the zone, admission to a community homeless shelter, certain health care or service placements, and some offenses committed before age eighteen when the person was not tried and convicted as an adult. Other exceptions cover a residence inhabited by July 1, 2024, a protected site built after the person established residence there, or a circuit court exemption order. One exception applies to a residence the person established and inhabited as of July 1, 2024.