MILWAUKEE (AP) -- Fond du Lac County District Attorney Eric Toney says the state's Department of Health Services is no longer seeking to place a convicted sex offender from Milwaukee in the town of Eldorado.
Toney said in a release Monday that state officials noted in their letter that a pre-emptive ordinance passed last week in Eldorado has "led to this placement no longer being viable" and that the agency has requested 90 days to find other housing for Clint Rhymes.
The ordinance, passed in a hasty special meeting, says the community would accept released sex offenders from Fond du Lac County only.
Rhymes was convicted in 1988 of sex assault and attempted murder.
Calls to DHS and the state public defender's office weren't immediately returned.
