BEATRICE – A Beatrice homeowners association is seeking a judge’s order that would prevent a convicted sex offender from residing in their neighborhood.

The Wildwood Estates Homeowners Association is seeking temporary and permanent injunctions to prevent 39-year-old Jeff Hawks from continuing to reside at 109 Wildwood Court. The case, in Gage County District Court, is before Judge Rick Schreiner and a hearing on a temporary injunction is now rescheduled for September 14^th. (11:30 am)

The homeowner’s association names Hawks and Thayer Farmland LLC as defendants in its action. It says Thayer Farmland acquired title to the property, which the association says is subject to certain terms and conditions in restrictive covenants. It says one of those is a prohibition against sex offenders or sexual predators owning, leasing or visiting the property or commons area of Wildwood Estates.

In the filing for injunction August 24^th, the homeowner’s association states that Hawks had resided at 109 Wildwood Court for more than three days with the intent to make it his permanent home.

Hawks is a convicted sex offender, required to register with the State of Nebraska for a 25-year-period. The requirement stems from 2016 Lancaster County convictions on two counts of third-degree sexual assault of a child. Hawks began serving a nine-to-ten-year prison sentence in March of 2016.

He was paroled this past August 10^th.