The Connecticut Supreme Court has ruled that a blind sex offender should not have been removed from the state’s rental assistance program because his name was on the state’s sex offender registry.
The ruling, which overturns a lower court decision, comes in the case of Francis Shannon, who was evicted in 2013 because he could no longer afford his rent without state assistance.
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