Source: westsidecurrent.com 6/5/25
VENICE — A man accused of breaking into the apartment of an 86-year-old woman at a Venice senior housing complex with alleged intentions to sexually assault her has a history of parole violations and criminal convictions — including failure to register as a transient sex offender — raising new alarms about the intersection of homelessness, registration laws, and public safety in Los Angeles.
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The case comes just as a new national study is shedding light on what researchers say is a little-discussed but increasingly urgent problem: the growing number of homeless individuals on the sex offender registry.
The Cicero Institute, a nonpartisan policy group, released findings in April showing that in at least 32 states, more than 10 percent of the unsheltered homeless population consists of registered sex offenders. In eight states, sex offenders make up more than half of that population.
Rising Risks in Local Communities
The report raises particular concerns about the risks posed by homeless sex offenders in densely populated urban areas like Los Angeles, where public encampments often form near schools, libraries, playgrounds, and senior housing.
Among the most alarming findings is the high level of criminal activity within the unsheltered homeless population as a whole — which the report suggests heightens when individuals with serious prior offenses, such as sexual assault or child endangerment, are concentrated in unmonitored settings.
“Allowing sex offenders to congregate in encampments, especially near sensitive community spaces, increases the likelihood of repeat offenses and places vulnerable residents at risk,” the report warns.
Interestingly enough, they want specialized housing for homeless PFRs which is contrary to what Longmont, CO wanted which is the dispersement of people in such type of housing so there is not critical mass for them to conjure up alleged nefarious ideas. Either way, neither solution works reasonably…all in line with the conservation movement they are part of. Hard to take the authoring org seriously.
Well what did they think was going to happen when they decided to freaking banish us from regular society? Huh? Or wait don’t tell me, they didn’t even consider the possible consequences of their actions.
There is a misstatement of the law in this article that needs to be noted. The only residency restrictions in California apply to registrants who are both on parole and evaluated as high risk. There are no residency restrictions for any other registrants. The numbers of individiuals in these categories are very revealing. Specifically, the number of registrants on parole and evaluated as high risk is about 3,500. The total number of people on the registry is more than 103,000.
It’s hard for me to speak on this topic because I was one of those people homeless out here, everyone I met that was on the registry didn’t want to be there.
Believe it or not a lot of homeless people live by the street code and people finding out ur on the registry while on the streets can be very dangerous that’s why PFR don’t go to homeless shelters and the ones that do take PFR are ran like a halfway house and their treated like their on probation because they have to follow the city guidelines when housing PFR.
If your on the registry in California my best advice is save ur money buy a house and start ur fight from there.