The City of Fullerton will consider repealing residency restrictions on sex offenders at its Tuesday City Council meeting.
The city currently prohibits registered sex offenders from residing within 2,000 ft. of any school, park or day care center. But a 2015 California Supreme Court decision struck down similar restrictions in San Diego County, and the decision has been widely interpreted as a rollback of statewide residency restrictions established by voters in 2006 through Proposition 83, known as Jessica’s Law. Full Article
“j”, if you are referring to State Senator Sharon Runner, she died in July of 2016. Of course, the evil she did, lives on in infamy.
People of California which is it? Do you really wish to shine a light on us, to know who we really are and where we really live, or do you want us in the shadows, faceless, undetectable, mythical? You made a law so you can locate the “known” bad people and expose that roving sex offender phantom that has been haunting your waking dream. Well that was a little disappointing, was’t it, it didn’t do a thing to make you feel safe. Did it? Now you want to banish those same marked people out of sight and mind. Then you can finally feel safe — for a minute or two. There is an epidemic of cognitive dissonance in this state and country.
These are very hateful laws. It’s almost surreal to think that someone who has committed a crime, been brought to justice, served their time and fulfilled their requirements for parole or probation would be banned from living in parts of the city? This is like something out of a movie. It also is very hateful and basically discounts the fact that they have already been punished? It doesn’t say a lot about the judicial system. So, if your a released murderer, drug dealer, vehicular manslaughter killer, wife beater, drive by shooter, gang member or repeatedly drive drunk, you have more rights and you can get on with your life. A misdemeanor sex offense with summary probation /expunged is treated worst them a murderer? Just terrible
“According to the Alliance for Constitutional Sex Offense Laws, at least 50 California cities still have residency restrictions for sex offenders on the books.”
is there anyway we can get a list of these cities??? and do any of these cities have presence restrictions??? I believe both of these issues are very important to most of us…how do they expect us to comply with laws if we don’t even know what they are?? the difference between these laws and all other laws is that all other laws are like firearms laws or drug laws and so on are universal laws that any ordinary person can delineate and comply very easily by just not possessing a gun or drugs where sex offender laws are unclear and interpreted and defined very differently in thousands of cities across the country…the problem is that these laws create criminal sanctions and liabilities not for engaging in any type of criminal conduct but simply for engaging in a wide variety of what is otherwise universally perfectly and obviously legal and I can be chatged and convicted of a serious felony without having any criminal intent to commit a crime. it has been along standing tradition in the criminal justice system in this country that as a prerequisite to any type of criminal conduct was and is associated with the person having criminal intent to commit a crime in order for them to be held criminally liable…
Is there a list somewhere of the 50 California cities that still have residence restrictions? Can ACSOL make this available somewhere on the website?
Excellent news! Glad to see that the cities are finally understanding the reality. I greatly appreciate Janice for putting the facts in front of these towns. These are people with generally good intentions, but they don’t have the education of the facts, and that is the most powerful tool in bringing these lawsuits for the purpose of greatly curbing the out of control laws.