Sex Offender Placement Moved Because It's Too Close to Victim
The Racine Police Department has canceled a public information meeting that was scheduled for Thursday at Fratt School about the impending supervised release of convicted sex offender Michael Fink.
The state Department of Health Services confirmed Wednesday that convicted sex offender Michael Fink will not be moved to a home on Lathrop Avenue in Manree Park. In an email to Patch, DHS spokeswoman Claire Smith said the reason Fink's release is being relocated is because one of his victims lives in the area. "I can confirm that we will not be placing Mr. Fink at the location that was proposed," she wrote. "We make every effort to ensure that individuals who are placed in the community are not placed near their victims. Had we known that a victim lived within a block or two, we would not have chosen that location." A public information meeting had been scheduled for Thursday at Fratt School to help explain to neighborhood residents the …
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1:46 pm on Friday, January 11, 2013
You pay for his housing and food and medical. Because out of fear and hysteria no one will employ or rent to a registered sex offender. Most halfway houses and homeless shelters will not take them. Therefore, we all pay for them. We are creating a disenfranchised underclass that congress will have to pay for eventually. We learned nothing from the Germans in the forties. more ›