Senate Education Committee Contact info below!
Like a phoenix rising from the ashes, Senate Bill 26 has been amended and is now scheduled for a March 29 hearing by the Senate Education Committee. The hearing will begin at 9 a.m. and be held in Room 4203 of the Capitol Building.
“Similar to the original version, the amended version of Senate Bill 26 is inconsistent with state law and would banish registrants who are the parents of school children from the grounds of their child’s school when pupils are present,” stated ACSOL Executive Director Janice Bellucci. “The amended bill would require school officials to escort registrant parents whenever they visit their children’s schools.”
In addition, the amended bill would prohibit anyone convicted of 12 offenses from visiting schools for any reason regardless of the amount of time has passed since the conviction or whether the person has re-offended. The amended bill would allow registrants to access school grounds when “pupils are not present”.
If the Senate Education Committee approves the bill, the bill would next be considered by the Senate Public Safety Committee. The date and location of that hearing is not yet known but will be posted on this website as soon as available.
Please call the members of the Senate Education Committee to oppose SB 26!
SENATE EDUCATION COMMITTEE
SEN. BEN ALLEN, CHAIRMAN
State Capitol, Room 2083
Sacramento, CA 95814
Phone: (916) 651-4026
SEN. SCOTT WILK, VICE CHAIRMAN
State Capitol, Room 4090
Sacramento, CA 94249
Phone: 916.651.4021
SEN. CATHLEEN GALGIANI
State Capitol, Room 5097
Sacramento, CA 95814
Phone: (916) 651-4005
SEN. TONY MENDOZA
State Capitol, Room 5100
Sacramento, CA 95814
Phone: (916) 651-4032
SEN. RICHARD PAN
State Capitol, Room 4070
Sacramento, CA 95814
Phone: (916) 651-4006
SEN. ANDY VIDAK
State Capitol, Room 3082
Sacramento, CA 95814-4900
Phone: (916) 651-4014
This is a very hateful and poorly thought out bill! For many people, both parents work and it’s difficult to pick children up on time etc. Furthermore, children are our future. For many, children are involved in sports, band and a variety of extracurricular activities. What about back to school night? Furthermore, as everyone is aware, you can’t generalize of clump all offenders together. There is a big difference between a multiple child related offender and the guy caught peeing in public or busted with a masseuse! As noted, we need people and especially lawmakers to wake up! Do you want a guy on campus with a decades old offense or the recently released gang banger or drug peddler?
This amendment is just as bad as the previous version. It is still enhancing the scarlet letter we already carry and draws even more unnecessary attention to registered citizens.
While you can’t email Senator Leyva through her website, you can contact her through the following email. This guy works in her office, and also helped work on the bill.
Phillip.VanderKlay@sen.ca.gov
This bill is kin to installing railroad crossing warning devises on a roadway that has no railroad tracks for the purpose of the likely hood that railroad will never be built.
It would be more important to have a law that bans teachers on school grounds, as there have been many incidents teachers sexually assaulting children vs no incidents of RC even entering school grounds unauthorized, let alone harming a child.
This bill makes a mental health diagnosis on registrants, broadly classifying them as mentally juvenial and without control of will, requiring them to be supervised as children when on school grounds, just like a misbehaving kid. How would this appear to the children of registrants? Well let me see. Let’s go back to another time when a group of people were classed as inferior and permanently juvenile, way back when. Daddy, why do you have to let all the others get on the bus before you? Why do they call you boy? You are a man, Daddy.
This bill presents a disturbing problem. If it is worded like AWA in regards to these 12 offenses, then it doesn’t matter if you are registered or not. I.E. even you were relieved of your duty to register from the forthcoming tiered registry bill, this law would still apply to you. Laws like this which circumvent the registry seen to be getting popular. I’d have to read the bill to be sure.
I think there should be a class action lawsuit on behalf of the children of registrants.
The state is putting up stumbling blocks in their education that other children don’t have. Parents missing teacher conferences, plays, graduations, and any other events. I’m sure there are lots of examples.
Unfortunately I think this would be difficult to do… it would take a brave family to join the class.
Below are the Senate Education Committee members. Please call by next Tuesday, March 28 to state your opposition SB 26. Letters may not arrive in time, but if you have the time to put one in the mail today, please do so.
SENATE EDUCATION COMMITTEE
SEN. BEN ALLEN, CHAIRMAN
SENATE EDUCATION COMMITTEE
STATE CAPITOL, ROOM 2083
SACRAMENTO, CA 95814
PHONE: (916) 651-4026
SEN. SCOTT WILK, VICE CHAIRMAN
State Capitol, Room 4090
Sacramento, CA 94249
Phone: 916.651.4021
SEN. CATHLEEN GALGIANI
State Capitol, Room 5097
Sacramento, CA 95814
Phone: (916) 651-4005
SEN. TONY MENDOZA
State Capitol, Room 5100
Sacramento, CA 95814
Phone: (916) 651-4032
SEN. RICHARD PAN
State Capitol, Room 4070
Sacramento, CA 95814
Phone: (916) 651-4006
SEN. ANDY VIDAK
State Capitol, Room 3082
Sacramento, CA 95814-4900
Phone: (916) 651-4014
Well, this law would apply to me even though I no longer have a conviction on my record. However, my continued 290 requirement bars me from campuses. This is the conundrum of the registry and its tiered proposal. Anyone with a 1203.4 should be automatically dropped from the registry. I don’t have children, but I hope to one day experience the joy of motherhood. Mothers are the primary caregiver and decision maker for their children’s lives. This proposal essentially harms my future children from my taking part in their lives. The only hope I have is that by the time my children are school age, I will have already fallen off the registry with a tiered registry.
I emailed the Senator in my district:
I oppose Senate Bill 26,(March 29 hearing by the Senate Education Committee) because it damages families, especially the children, of ex-offenders. It was very meaningful to my sons for me to have attended their schools for Open Houses, pick them up from the nurse’s office when they became ill or injured, and to have come to their school auditorium to vote. Registered citizens have about a 1% recidivism rate; however, they are all very aware that people mistakenly think they will impulsively offend any minor within grabbing distance around them, so they carefully live their lives in rigid behavior to avoid even an allegation of wrongdoing. I had my husband escort me to events for that reason. Being banished from school grounds or escorted by faculty is additional punishment to those who really don’t need any more of it, and robs their kids the pride of showing their work/performances to a parent.
I’m almost amused by some of these laws. It’s disturbing to see how lawmakers think of laws when other laws are already in place? I can truly understand the need for laws, but when California and I believe only 3 other states require lifelong registration, that’s disturbing and thought provoking. Furthermore, I might suggest focusing on other lawbreakers when there is currently a 3 percent recidivism rate! As I’ve noted in the past, my hope is that the goal with the legal system is to rehabilitate individuals and turn them into model citizens. Putting them online, preventing them to live in all areas and instituting a multitude of laws that make no sense makes it increasingly difficult to live, work, raise families and simply function in society! This is why lawmakers should be focusing on rehabilitating individuals and providing some form of outlet for those so deserving. I’ve always thought the US is a country of compassion!
Really more of the same. The modifications of the bill (AB-26) actually by it’s affects and application would be the same. Who would want to escort a registrant while they are on school grounds? This is an easy method of giving the schools a method of NOT having ANY registrant able to attend events on school grounds…all the staff has to say is, “well, we don’t have any AVAILABLE staff to escort you for THE/ANY event. The effects being the same…NO registrants allowed on campus! Those so called changes are only a smoke and mirrors tactic to sell the thing!!!
Another teen goes missing,
Elizabeth Thomas, kid napped by a
Culleoka Tennessee school teacher
Tad Cummins and here we have senator Leyva attacking registrants for stepping on school grounds in the name of protecting the children even though
not one incident has ever occurred and yet every year we see teachers doing the very thing senator Leyva created SB 26 for. What a joke.
Made my phone calls in opposition.
So, did anyone go to the hearing? What happened?