Sex Offender Residency Ordinance in Danger

Councilor Dean Tran blasted out an e-mail today urging supporters of his sex offender residency ordinance to get to tonight's City Council meeting (7:30) and support his petition, which for some reason is suddenly on thin ice.

Tran's e-mail notes the council has unanimously voted in favor of the regulation five times, but that it's not in effect until Mayor Dan Mylott signs it. We'll let Tran take it from here for awhile:

Now for whatever reason, the Council is being asked to recall the
ordinance, get rid of it because we should not regulate sex offenders and leave
the situation to the state. This is an incredibly obscene request simply
because certain individual(s) do not feel comfortable telling sex offenders
where to live.

I am outraged as an elected official, a taxpayer, a
concern resident and a parent. The City Council has worked extremely hard
to pass an ordinance to protect our children.

Tran is looking for folks to come to the meeting tonight and urge councilors to keep the petition moving along. He finishes by calling the move "politics as usual and we should not tolerate it in the expense of our children’s safety."

Tran's a little short on the details in all this. We're wondering what happened to get this thing called back. This is a bizarre turn of events and we're wondering where the change of heart came from.

This call to arms might come a bit late (jeez, an afternoon's notice is a bit tough), but it sounds pretty legitimate. Who knows what the council is up to here, but Tran is looking for some voices to support his ordinance, which for some reason is suddenly on life support.