Today we are conducting hand-to-hand combat with cities throughout the state of California in order to challenge their residency restrictions. There are more than 100 cities that have such restrictions and thusfar we have filed nine lawsuits.
The series of lawsuits began last year when we challenged residency restriction in the City of Grover Beach that prohibited registered citizens from moving into most of that small city. It also prohibited registered citizens already living in that city from moving into a new home within the same city…..including Frank Lindsay who was viciously attacked in his home by a stranger who vowed to kill him solely because Frank is on the registry.
We chose the City of Grover Beach as the first challenge because we testified there when the City considered whether to expand its residency restrictions from 1,000 feet to 2,000 feet. Despite our testimony as well as verification of the facts we presented by the city’s Chief of Police, the City Council agreed to the expansion.
It took a federal lawsuit to get the attention of the City of Grover Beach. Once that lawsuit was filed, however, the City Council corrected its mistake in 30 days by repealing not just the expansion it had approved, but all of the residency restrictions in that city.
Not all of the cities we have sued have been as smart as Grover Beach. In fact, the dumbest city we have sued so far is the City of Murrieta. Not only did the City of Murrieta fail to repeal its residency restrictions, it filed an unsuccessful motion to dismiss the case just a few months later.
In addition, the City of Murrieta is the only city known to have enforced its residency restrictions following a California Supreme Court case that declared similar restrictions to be unconstitutional in some circumstances. The City, in fact, enforced its restrictions only 10 days ago after a registrant moved in with his sister, a move approved by the CA Department of Corrections under an interstate compact.
In its decision to enforce its residency restrictions, the City of Murrieta did not take into account that the registrant has a low risk of re-offense (Static-99 score of 0), is destitute and has significant health conditions that require in-home care. The City of Murrieta did not take into account that the registrant’s sister is the only person willing and able to care for him and that if he is not allowed to live with her, he will be homeless and possibly die on the streets of Murrieta.
What will it take for the cities of California to abide by the Constitution? Will it take 100 lawsuits? Will it take registrants dying on their streets?
Please stay tuned for the answer as we continue to file lawsuits as well as an application for a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) that prevents the City of Murrieta from evicting a registered citizen from his sister’s home.
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Janice, again, thank you for your constant effort to restore the civil rights of registered citizens and their families. Besides Murrieta, what other cities are you currently suing?
Has anyone sought to get Assemblywoman Melissa Melendez to contact the city of Murrieta requesting them to repeal their ordinance? That city is in her district I believe. Probably don’t want the request to be hung over the water cooler as a laughing point in the office… I guess the only other recourse is law suite… then NEXT…
Wow, they just won’t learn. Janice, i’d be afraid to go hand-to-hand combat with you. 🙂
GO GET ‘EM.
I know this is off subject Janice but as for some clarity, SB 448 is just for those registered citizens, convicted after January 1st 2017 correct???
BECAUSE WHAT CONFUSES ME IS THAT IT STATES =This bill would make a person who fails to provide his or her Internet identifiers, as required by the bill, regardless of the offense upon which the duty to register is based, guilty of a misdemeanor punishable in a county jail not exceeding 6 months.=What does regardless off the offense of which the duty to register is based mean?
Also Janice, and i really appreciate your patience, as for clarity again on AB 2569, Is it retroactive?
and what if your conviction was from 18 yrs ago?
And you were granted exclusion in 2008?
BTW, the conviction was not incest related!
These cities are breaking the law. They should be held accountable for knowingly breaking the law….criminals
I honestly believe I am not alone, with my concerns regarding these two unconstitutional bills, AB 2569 & SB 448
that is why i am asking these questions, thank you for all you have accomplished!!!!
Murrieta is in Melissa Melendez district do we see a connection i think she has issues from her past she needs to come to terms with…
Static 99? I’d like to go hand-to-hand combat with that actuarial “instrument” created and used by a bunch of scam artists.
Our favorite California State Senator, Sharon Runner, passed away July 14th. Her replacement ought be better, since it would be hard to be worse.
Seems somewhat ironic to me, with all of the Murietta talk, that I just visited Murietta, CA.
While there, along with family, went to some baseball games at “Parks” in neighboring towns.
This is all entirely a crock of BS.
The laws that are being passed just make me sick to my stomach.
I went in, spent time with family and got the hell out of California within 5 days.
I think it’s still 5 days? Can’t keep up with the changing laws.
Janice, thanks for your tireless efforts. Without you and other dedicated CA RSOL supporters, many of us would be in the same hellish situation as the Murrieta registrant. I will support CA RSOL in any way I can, including the Oakland protest.
You think Bell Gardens would have more pressing needs to worry about such as mayors getting assassinated by their wife
I commend Janice’s efforts and wish her and her team well. It seems the only way to attack these laws is that they violate so many of the tenets of our US constitution. RSO from Houston TX
What about the 12 new requirements that just got forced into effect? I went down in California and just got confronted with 12 new requirements. I have copy. Of all 12
Concerned Mistake,
Please tell us what the 12 new requirements are in California. I’d like to follow them since “ignorance” of the law is not a valid reason for not following it.
concerned what are these 12 new requirements. please elaborate on this subject.
I had 22 requirements on my forms in my last registration in November
Sue Murietta for $1 Billion dollars for violation of this man’s Constitutional and Human rights. Enough is enough!!!!
wow two days later still no elaboration about these supposed knew requirements in ca thats nice throw a bombshell out there then leave people hanging for days…not cool man…
The judge in the Murrieta case issued a TRO today that prohibits the city from enforcing residency restrictions against a registered citizen. In her decision, the judge relied heavily upon last year’s CA Supreme Court decision, In re Taylor, as well as a recent CA Sex Offender Management Board report. The judge stated in her ruling that “the CSOMB Report suggests that allowing Plaintiff to reside with his sister in Murrieta may promote the public’s interest in public safety, as it would provide stability to Plaintiff’s life….” More information about this decision will be added “soon” to the website.
Murrieta…….
A Mormon infested cesspool of incestual deviants. I speculate that not ONE of the City Council members of Murrieta would pass the polygraph examination given to sex offenders.
Murrieta……. well known by the rest of Riverside County as the city where a black man is truly a nigger, a Hispanic man is truly a spic and the Jews are nothing but oven fodder.
Murrieta……. Where you slow down to 69 on the 15 simply out of fear that the CHP might turn you over to the city cops.
Let’s make them pay…
My husband was coerced by his public defender, to plead guilty to 1st degree Child Molestation back in 1991 Washington State. We live in Fresno, Ca, where he is on PRCS. His probation officer applies the 2000 ft residency restriction “one size fits all,” and as a result, we are homeless. We need help and have nowhere to turn.
My husband was coerced by his public defender, to plead guilty to a crime he didn’t commit –1st degree Child Molestation back in 1991 Washington State. We live in Fresno, Ca, where he is on PRCS. His probation officer applies the 2000 ft residency restriction “one size fits all,” and as a result, we are homeless. We need help and have nowhere to turn. Fresno is not following Re: Taylor! The Officers at the 290 Registration office have told us they do not enforce the residency restriction and that the PRCS officer who handles all 290s is “hanging her hat on it.”
Thank you Janice, for your dedication and hard work. Fresno County needs to be on the list of unconstitutional municipalities.