The Regal Inn: An Asset or a Liability to Sheffield?

The Regal Inn has been on our Eyesore List for several years. In March 2010, according to the TimesDaily: City building officials, fire marshals and health department officials closed the northern section of Regal Inn on Jackson Highway Wednesday over health concerns. Whether these issues, raw sewage among them, were ever corrected we have no idea.

According to public sex offender records, three sex offenders were living in the motel before the two from the Four-Way Motel were moved there. As far as we know, it it not currently against the law for sex offenders to be clustered in a public facility (motel). We can understand why some find it disturbing.

Local television stations are covering this controversy, so look for more to come.

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A local activist has asked who pays the rent for these men if they don't work. It's our understanding that many sex offenders are classified as so unemployable that they receive a disability payment from Social Security.

If you look at the Alabama sex offender site, or any state sex offender site, you will note that a large number of these men...and women...are listed as disabled. This is not a physical disability in most cases, but simply the result of their status.

To be continued...