In an effort to protect its most vulnerable citizens, the Kyle Police Department presented city council with an ordinance restricting the living proximity of sex offenders to children.
Chief of Police Jeff Barnett said the ordinance would regulate where certain registered sex offenders could reside and visit within city limits.
“Some registered sex offenders are choosing to live within the city limits of Kyle because we do not have an ordinance that currently regulates where they can re side within our city,” Barnett said. “This came about from our registered sex offender compliance officer, Officer Dago Pates, who has been serving at that capacity for a number of years. Through his experience, he realized that other communities were enacting ordinances similar to what we brought before you.”
