Criminal Law in Bergen County: Megan's Law can Preempt Local Ordinances

New Jersey's Megan Law was conceived to among other things, track the location of certain sex offenders.
For quite sometime now, various municipalities have enacted ordinances which have imposed greater restrictions on convicted sex offenders by impairing their ability to live within certain distances from parks, playgrounds, school and child care facilities.
A few weeks ago, a appellate court concluded that these ordinances were invalid because Megan's Law had pre-empted this area of the law.