Also, the ordinance has created a system under which sex offenders are designated points related to their status.

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This "special status" had put Taylor in a "different category of offenders for the purpose of sentencing, " the judge said.

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He was allowed to go to high school, where no one knew about his status until two weeks before prom, when a list of sex offenders in his ZIP code went out to neighbors.

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