SEEKING SAFETY: Providence City Councilman Luis Aponte has introduced legislation that would increase minimum "child safety zones" from 300 to 500 feet from schools and other facilities by disallowing registered sex offenders from living there. /PBN FILE PHOTO
The release of a high-profile, convicted sex offender and his subsequent move from Massachusetts to Rhode Island has created a storm in a Providence neighborhood. Residents upset at the presence of Richard Gardner in the Washington Park neighborhood have demonstrated publicly outside his residence and met in a community forum. Providence City Council, at the…
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