What is considered a safe home, according to the Parole Board? As you probably know by now, nothing seems to be the same for every one. A safe home is determined by the Field agent! A field agent is a person assigned to see over your parole. They work for the department of corrections, through the parole board, the part of corrections that controls all of the inmate’s future. The Parole Board does give the field agent many guidelines and it is their responsibility to enforce those rules, but may make exceptions in some cases. The main rule will be that the field agent starts you out, like a house arrest. The field agent comes to visit the home where the returning citizen plans to live and goes over the rules with you. Some of the rules are, no guns or ammunition, no computer cell phone, in some cases no computer, no drugs or alcohol to name a few and the worst one is no kids (17 years old and younger) coming over to visit or live there. This is after your home has been approved according to the sex offender registry rules. Some of the sex offender rules are: you can’t live within 1000 ft of a school, church, day care, sport fields or where children are likely to be or within 500 ft of any kind of park. I recommend staying away from these places, if at all possible, but the law is that you can’t live near these places, but you are allowed to go to these places, BUT not loitering. In other words, always ask your field agent for approval if for some reason it’s necessary for you to go to that area, even if it’s part of your work. All these restrictions are why it seems you are on house arrest, Of course you need to be on curfew all the time, except for work or church. It is not a law in MI that you have the right to go to church, but it is an accepted fact that attorney’s, churches, R S O counselors, Jail Chaplain, agree it is an accepted practice and encouraged. But most important of all the Parole agents agree and encourage their client’s to do so with the exception that they receive a letter from the church that they have a policy in place to receive R S O’s into their church. Anyone needing help on this, give us a call.