Councilman Frank DiMiceli also asked borough solicitor Robert T. Yurchak to send Carbon County probation offices and state and federal parole officials copies of the mapped areas from which sex offenders are restricted.

State law now requires certain convicted sex offenders to register their addresses and the police to notify neighbors, but it does not limit where they can live.

State police also maintain a Web site listing sex offenders, but it lists none living in Nesquehoning. Two are listed in neighboring Jim Thorpe and three in nearby Lansford, with 30 in all of Carbon County.

The 1,500-foot limit is measured in a straight line from the outer property line of the sex offender's residence to the nearest outer property line of the prohibited places.

Some have raised questions about the legalities of measures restricting where sex offenders can live. Laws approved by municipalities in New Jersey have been struck down on the grounds that offenders are already required to register their addresses.

Several municipalities in the region, however, including Bangor, Whitehall Township, East Rockhill Township, Dublin, Allentown, Quakertown and Northampton have restrictions on where sex offenders can live. Many of those municipalities prohibit offenders from living within 2,500 feet of schools, playgrounds and other places where children gather.

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