Riverside County is poised to do away with an ordinance that sets rules on where sex offenders can live or visit in an effort to avoid a lawsuit.
The county established sex-offender residency and loitering prohibitions for unincorporated areas in 2010, but the Board of Supervisors gave preliminary approval last week to repeal the law because an appeal court has invalidated similar ordinances in other municipalities. Full Article
Steve and everyone else; I looked for this in comments and I could not find it so I’m posting this here. It’s clear and obvious you have your facts skewered, and thus your conclusions of registrants and what is happening is wrong. Janice Bellucci; a true American, is currently asking cities and counties to comply with state law. I take offense to your use of the word “freaks” and think you should lose that view of people on the registry because tomorrow you too could be forced to comply with the illegal registry and all the accompanying unconstitutional laws facilitated… Read more »
Am I reading this right? The article says
“poised to do away with an ordinance that sets rules on where sex offenders can live or visit.”
If the county is going to do away with residency restrictions in the unincorporated areas I would have to consider this progress and a good sign for individual cities to follow suit and eventually get rid of residency restrictions.
There are a couple of examples of cities that repealed both the presence restrictions and the residency restrictions. There are a few savvy city attorneys out there who understand that the same logic that got the courts to undo the presence restrictions can easily be applied to residency restrictions. Rather than go through the hassle twice, they decided to repeal the whole thing right up front.
Which cities have repealed their residency restrictions as well?
Wow! I haven’t heard about this. can you possibly post links?
Exactly ‘B’….been saying on the best of Brubaker that they couldn’t put free people to lifetime parole conditions and double jeopardy …it is the same key that rights a wrong.
http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2014/07/07/rivco-officials-discuss-repealing-sex-offender-ordinance/
More misinformation. Exactly what state law prohibits me from being within 2,000 feet of a school or park?