CA: Simi Valley links to Megan’s Law site to safeguard kids from sex offenders on Halloween

Simi Valley on Thursday unveiled a new strategy to safeguard trick-or-treating children from the city’s registered sex offenders. It used its Nixle.com account to link to the state’s Megan’s Law website, which lists the names, photos and addresses of 97 of the city’s 165 registered sex offenders. Full Article

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Lol. We’ve all seen this type behavior over and over. The Pot calling the Kettle black. This guy HUBER has a few deep rooted secrets of his own just like Dennis Hastert ( the political figure who fought tiredlessly for stronger sex offender regulations and was found guilty of several accounts of molestation). Nice try Bob Huber, don’t you know your fascination with this is enlighting. I encourage everyone to link on to the ACSOL website and wait for updates on this monster.

Wait, wait, wait… Wouldn’t this be illegal for them to PUSH this information onto people? At the very least one would think this would be completely contrary to the 2003 SCOTUS ruling that “it wasn’t a big deal because one would have to seek out this information”.

What? Have Halloween in churches, schools and at family gatherings? That is where the sexual abuse happens that is going to happen. What map are you going to use for that? People just really enjoy getting off being scared, that’s all I can see.
One other thing, checking out the Megan’s law map and avoiding houses is now encouraged by ACSOL? Is that a misprint or what?

Simi Valley has a population of about 125,000, and it would be very interesting to know how much of a spike there will be on the DOJ registry website from Simi Valley. My bet is barely a nudge.

Court and Criminal records easily accessible my assssss. Are these downright idiots at scrotus??? I am still searching see how easy it s to find court records and what they actually contain, but especially criminal records, are not by any means easily accessible. I am going to pound this issue home as well. Has anyone on here ever tried to get a criminal record of anyone? Well, you can’t unless you pay money and go through a lengthy and full disclosure of all your personal info via your credit card first. I just started thinking about this the other day and finally got around to trying and there is not anyone that will offer you those records without a lengthy process, and all kinds of disclosures, and without your credit card and personal info…..

He’s just grand standing to get his name in the media. Licking his wounds and needing again too harm others for no reason. Must be something inside him he’s trying to punish.

It was encouraging that commenters, of the article, were beating a different drum than the fear mongering the city’s leadership and media.

Hey how about equal protection under the law???

why dont they post the CASOMB video on their nixle.com website! Present all necessary data for a parent to make an informed decision; perhaps that would have been the better response to thinking it appropriate to link to megan law’s website!!

Simi Valley Mayor Bob Huber wrote:
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Huber said he’s “frustrated by the backlash against the city and the City Council” over the now-rescinded ordinance.

“I’m the one who originated the Halloween ordinance in the first place to protect our children,” he said. “Most cities didn’t even have such an ordinance.”
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From the article:
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Even so, attorney Janice Bellucci, who brought the Sept. 18 lawsuit on behalf of a Simi Valley registered sex offender and his mother, brother and daughter, said the ordinance was unnecessary to begin with. There are no reports that a trick-or-treating child has ever been sexually assaulted in California by a registered sex offender, she said.
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So this means this law (ordinance) was created out of no scientific reasoning.

But here is Huber again:
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Mayor Bob Huber said the city’s new strategy is “a very proactive way to approach the protection of our children. We’ll be sending the link to the Megan’s Law site for our residents to locate and therefore avoid going to homes of registered sex offenders.”
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The mayor is pushing registrant information onto the public by linking the ML website. Please note the Mayor’s intent was to be “proactive”. Adding a link is pushing information. It’s a form of advertisement. An advertisement’s purpose is to push a specific information.

This is the same as putting people onto a public square for public shaming specifically for Halloween. This is simply retributive. The Mayor created the ordinance. The courts agreed to repeal the ordinance. The Mayor then is trying to redistribute the information proactively. In fact, the article is an accomplice in advertising proactively about ML’s.

So this repeal of the Halloween ordinance is another piece of legislation that can be factually identified as unconstitutional along with presence and residency restrictions. These are all disabilities. So… 1203.4 is supposed to remove all penalties and disabilities from the conviction, but registrants aren’t allowed to have that immunity. In a case to challenge registering after receiving the 1203.4, the courts didn’t see any disabilities. Now, we can look back and state, “these three laws were deemed unconstitutional” and can be deemed a penalty and disability.

It sounds to me like the RC’s in Simi Valley need to get together and sue the city again, this time for blatant harassment, as well as endangering their lives by sending their information out indiscriminately. If someone who received that information from the city doesn’t have children, it was unnecessary even under the city’s claim of protecting children. And, if someone uses that information and does anything at all that would quality as vigilantism, I would think the city becomes culpable since they sent the information unsolicited. I agree with others, this completely goes against the 2003 SCOTUS decision which stated this information had to be intentionally sought by the public, and perhaps could be yet another thing to help bring down the registry as a whole!