SALEM LAKES — Jeff Spencer, a former Indian Trail High School and Academy basketball coach and teacher convicted of sex offenses involving two teenage girls he was coaching, has been denied an exemption to the Salem Lakes sex offender residency ordinance.
Spencer, who was sentenced in 2015 to 1½ years in prison and six years of supervision for engaging in inappropriate behavior with the minors, wanted to live within 1,200 feet of Schmalfeldt Park in Silver Lake. Village ordinance prohibits sex offenders from living within 2,000 feet of a park.
Trustee Mike Culat made a motion to deny Spencer’s request for an exemption, seconded by trustee Bill Hopkins. The motion was approved by a 5-2 vote of the Village Board.
