WISCONSIN
Green Bay Press-Gazette
Written by
Scott Cooper Williams
Press-Gazette Media
Six months after exposing a loophole in Green Bay’s sex offender ordinance, a former Catholic priest convicted of molesting a young boy continues living near a public park on the city’s east side.
Donald Buzanowski, 70, moved to an apartment building at 2258 Imperial Lane last year despite being banned from living there by the city’s Sex Offender Residence Board.
City officials later discovered that they had no jurisdiction over Buzanowski, because he was convicted under a state law not listed among the city’s reasons for restricting where sex offenders could live.
Aldermen voted to close the loophole in December, but they have since learned that the change cannot be applied retroactively to Buzanowski.
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