Buckingham Township repeals local sex offender law

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A township in Bucks County is changing how it deals with sex offenders.

Buckingham Township officials are repealing a 2009 ordinance. Under the ordinance.. Convicted sex offenders could not live within 25-hundred feet of a school. Child-care facility, or public park.

Officials now say the ordinance was in violation with a 2011 State Supreme Court decision. State law, also called Megan's Law, states convicted sex offenders may not face automatic restrictions on where they reside.

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