Source: actionnewsnow.com 9/25/25
REDDING, Calif. – A motel on Cypress Avenue is getting attention this week after Redding Police found out that more than a dozen registered sex offenders and arsonists are being housed there.
Recently, Redding Police Chief Brian Barner and his staff found out that the ‘Guestplace Inn & Suites’ on Cypress Avenue is housing 18 registered sex offenders and arsonists.
Those receiving housing are apart of the ‘No Boundaries’ program.
No Boundaries works in collaboration with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to house parolees who are fresh out of jail.
The Guestplace Inn & Suites then contracts with No Boundaries, and blocks off 30 rooms specifically for those enrolled in the program. “We don’t know anything about their history, their medical history, nothing about the person themselves” an administrator for the motel told Action News Now in a phone interview.
The administrator, who wanted to remain anonymous, says the motel doesn’t choose it’s clientele, but rather multiple community organizations, including the Shasta Community Health Center, gives vouchers to people experiencing homelessness to access low-barrier housing at different low-budget motels across the city.
The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation also determine who gets to stay where.
I asked the administrator point blank: “You guys wouldn’t know if these people are registered sex offenders by chance?”
The administrator replied simply, “We would not.”
She says the motel is not legally allowed to disclose the types of clients staying there, even if families or young kids are staying at the motel overnight. “They have their own area where they can gather, kind of in the corner of the property” the administrator explained. “They can’t come up front, they can’t come to the office, they don’t go to the restaurant.”
Earlier this week, Redding City Councilmember Dr. Paul Dhanuka expressed his disapproval of the situation in a Facebook post, and says he’s working with Chief Barner and the incoming City Manager Steve Bade to get the people staying there housed in other cities throughout the state. “In cities like San Francisco and Los Angeles, there are many more hotels that state agencies can house the parolees there” he told me.
Dhanuka says he’s looking into passing an ordinance within the city, to outlaw clientele who may be arsonists or registered sex offenders from staying at Redding-area motels. “From my understanding, there hasn’t been any significant coordination between the state agencies and our local law enforcement” Dhanuka said. “So now, we’ve basically become kind of a dumping ground here.”
I reached out via email and phone call to No Boundaries, but…
“Police found out” After a Karen told them no doubt.
“Concerned citizen(s) = people that have no life, so they’re prone to manufactuer outrage to whomever is willing to give credence to their insecuries.
I have this theory that these storys are finely tuned and curated to foster user engagement with Cluster B personality types. Most people dismiss these musing as tabloid “bat boy” nonsense, but there is a certain subset of viewers – the really insecure and maladusted ones – they intentionally target because media outlets know these individuals are prime candidates to jump at outrage bait such as this. They take everything presonally and will bite at this garbage easily.
So where do they want them to go, law enforcement tears down any enchantments they build in the middle of nowhere. So let me get this straight they can’t live in the middle of nowhere, they can’t live in the city, and if they go transit they’re at risk of being put back in jail if they don’t register every 30 days.
The board and its members, the chief, and the incoming city manager all need to be asked in public what fear they have of these people and if there is any reason currently being given for them to be feared. If not, then they need to STFU and help them recover in working to get back into the swing of life. If they choose not to do that and make them homeless, I hope these folks live outside the homes of these folks who are working against them, not with or for them.
It was a Karen who used to work at said hotel who decided he did not want to work around the population of people in the program that is operating out of the location.
Redding (Caste): Motel Ordinance and the Emergence of a New Caste
She sits in a café. By choice—because ordinance says she is caste. She knows arrest will come. Outside, the motel is cordoned off—30 rooms sealed for parolees, registrants, arsonists, and anyone deemed not worth the mention. Police with caste-based laws wait. Inside, the city council drafts a new exclusion: no registrants, no arsonists, and if you’re an ex-anything, your next karma is here. You are a no-caste allowed.
This is not about safety. This is about caste. A new caste is being written—not by biology, but by zoning. By crime, by containment, by exclusion. And staying where you feel safe is no longer an option. Even churches now deny. Yes, this applies to you—snuggled in your homes, surrounded by comfort, unaware that your ignorance of just laws is complicity. Servitude is rampant in this country, and the profit per registrant per year is not just measurable—it’s institutionalized:
$80 billion/year extracted through public prisons
$3.9 billion/year earned by private prison corporations
$0.86/day average prison labor wage
600% markup on commissary goods
$2.9 billion/year paid by families for calls and basic needs
48 states still charge “pay-to-stay” fees
Parole programs like No Boundaries funded through health partnerships, yet cities receive no revenue
This is not rehabilitation. This is containment for profit. This is caste logic, monetized.
The history of exclusion is not gone—it is repeating. When our ancestors were dragged, burned, displaced, denied education, bathrooms, restaurants, fairs, parks— When they were contained in flood zones and forgotten communes— The nation called it progress. So they slept. Now, it calls it zoning. And still—they sleep.
Proximity is punishment. You cannot bear children and live with them. You cannot worship freely. You cannot be what you already are. If you continue the erasure of our forefathers, You will defeat all you thought was real.
This is predictive displacement. This is constitutional grief. This is caste logic, metastasizing.
And still—she sits in the café. We are the new caste. We are not asking to be liked. We are demanding to be lawful.
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Wrote the following to the story’s author. The link is on the source article. Again, I suggest more people do this when comments aren’t available (and sometimes even if they are).
Mr. Mayfield:
Regarding the above cited article, nowhere in the story did it state for how long the subject hotel has participated in the ‘No Boundaries’ program, or the number of sex crimes and/or arsons committed there during the period. I couldn’t help but wonder if you hadn’t thought to ask or if you had and the answer didn’t suit the alarm I presume you attempted to raise.
Looking forward to your response.
“They can’t come up front, they can’t come to the office, they don’t go to the restaurant.”
Yes, they may start a fire inside the office 🤭
So Councilman Dhanuka believes Redding has become a “dumping ground” for these people, therefore he gets with the chief & city manager to arrange that they get dumped in San Francisco or Los Angeles where “there are plenty of hotels & state agencies” that can house those people, as he puts it. I’ll be the first to call out his bs. 🙄 I also find it hypocitical that this GOP councilman “doctor” remains in a party that is always bashing LA & SF for letting homelessness get out of control, yet the doctor wants to contribute to it.
I’m sure the good ” Dr” is fine with having drug dealers, wife beaters, and robbers living in the city. I bet the Dr couldn’t name one case where a PFR committed another sex crime while staying at the hotel. Another Dr quack like Oz and Phil selling their snake oil.
Since the Guestplace Inn began housing parolees under the No Boundaries program in 2023, at least six publicly reported crimes have occurred in or near the Bechelli Lane corridor. On April 2022, a man was arrested for attempted murder after a shooting near Hartnell Avenue. In November 2023, two separate arrests occurred—one for meth trafficking involving 2 pounds of narcotics, and another for fentanyl possession during a vehicle stop. In August 2024, a deadly shooting west of Bechelli Lane led to another arrest. In February 2025, a felony vandalism suspect was arrested for damaging nearby businesses. Most recently, on September 25, 2025, a fatal stabbing at a transitional housing site resulted in a murder charge. Additionally, an RV fire at a nearby gas station on the same day was initially suspected as arson but later ruled accidental. No new sex offenses or arsons have been confirmed.
@Dustin, thank you for reminding us to use our voice as you do. My email sent this morning:
Dear Mr. Mayfield,
Respectfully, you missed the more obvious point in this story. Where are these people supposed to live? They have nowhere to go. Over 100,000 people on the CA sex offense registry and 800,000+ nationwide. That bloated and growing registry has people who committed their crimes over 30 or 40 years ago. It has minors on the registry currently and many people whose crimes were committed when they were minors or very young. The crimes that land you on that most hated list include things like public urination, tween sexting, youthful consensual sex, and noncontact possession of illegal images easily pulled from the internet. I am not saying there are not also truly awful sex crimes and I am not saying crimes of a sexual nature don’t need to be punished, I am saying the people on the registry or coming out of prison for these crimes have been punished. They have served their sentence, or are trying to complete it. Those on parole and probation are under constant supervision with the harshest of restrictions and demands. Those off paper and on the lifetime registry punishment scheme are still under custody of the state, even though no judge will say it outloud.
These people have a lifetime of problems, unlike any other class of crimes and that class of crimes is broadened daily. Society keeps pushing them out and prohibiting their reintegration into the community. How about an article on how not allowing people to find a home is counterproductive to public safety?
How about an article showing that these people are people and struggling to get through the day. The nonprofit groups helping this most hated group of people are all they have. And now someone decided they should not live at the Redding Motel. Why? Did they hurt someone there? Is there something illegal going on?
What is law enforcement’s concern? They have the information on all parolees. This false narrative and pearl clutching that now “they” are all living there and all sorts of nefarious crimes will be committed against children is a harmful lie. A look at the facts would give you a great scoop on the real story no one is willing to tell.
Thank you for reading through.
In my neighboring town there was a motel that housed SO that were released into the community from prison. The town passed an ordinance to prevent them from living there. Very shortly after all the SO left, all the drug abusers and dealers moved in. The hotel was against the ordinance as the SO were quiet and paid their bills. Now the police are always at the motel for all the crime they created. The same thing will happen here. The public thinks they are preventing crime, but they just create more!!! Stupid public!
I thought about reaching out to No Boundaries teaming up with the registrant advocate community.
This hotel is only trying to survive is my guess by their reviews… But I applaud them.
Yup, I had to send my two cents into the fine reporter from Redding, CA in hopes maybe at 26, he will learn how to be a better reporter in his second gig at the station while making his momma proud (as he said):
Mr. Mayfield,
Regarding the subject story you wrote 25 Sep 2025 for Action News, there seems to be entire missing side to the story about those who are living at the motel in question. Other than the program they are living there under, which does contribute to the local community by conducting business with the motel and providing taxes to the Redding tax coffers, what is the actual and honest problem of them living there as they work to reintegrate into society? Have there been any repeated sexual crime offenses committed by any of those who are convicted of that and living there? Have there been any repeated arson fires committed by those who have an arson conviction and living there?
Before you stop reading this letter altogether, you need to contact The Alliance for Constitutional Sex Offense Laws (ACSOL) (https://all4consolaws.org/) to learn me about this topic overall and in the state of California specifically. Ms. Janice Belluci and her staff (in Sacramento) will be happy to educate and inform you about this topic in greater detail for your professional education and overall knowledge in this area. It will be worth your while, especially if you are going to remain in professional journalism (or just living as one who needs to understands in your hometown of Redding).
Other than fearmongering by a local community medical professional who is possibly looking to score political credibility with the local community when it comes to his political career and a law enforcement professional who feels they are being pushed into resolving a non-issue for their job security and possible political career, what is the actual problem here? Is there feeling critical mass will happen with these folks living together that something evil will happen? Perhaps this needs to be asked of them in a public forum such as a community meeting by you.
Granted, there is no good press written when it comes to fearmongering topics such as this given the “sky is falling” attitudes of today by society who live in fear of their own shadow because they don’t want to research and understand. The fear they generate really only allows those to project onto others issues they have and hide what crimes they actually may be committing in their positions of trust.
Instead of feeding it for clicks and online revenue, why don’t you objectively look into the those who are impacted by their convictions and their efforts to rise above those who are looking to hold them back, such as these two here. When one objectively looks at the repeated offense rate of those who have sex crime convictions, they are the second lowest overall, only a touch more than those who have a murder conviction. When one objectively looks at the data of those who have first time sex crime convictions, those in positions of trust, i.e., law enforcement and medical professionals, are more common than those who live in a motel and trying to reintegrate into society. I am not saying these two are doing this, but they are part of the community where they have colleagues who are guilty of abusing their positions of trust in committing sex crimes and should understand people need to be able to get back up on their feet and reintegrate into society.
Culturally, this is creating a caste system, a system of the have and have-nots, which leads to more problems than it cures. Is this what these two are looking to create locally, in the state, and the country with this line of thought? Is this what an alleged good Christian church going member (Dr. P) should be doing? Is that what a medical professional who swore an oath to help others should be doing? Do those who have fallen as they folks have and are living in meager accommodations not deserve the same protections by the medical and law enforcement communities?
Make your momma proud, as you said you want to do, learn more and look at issues from all sides for full reporting, not just the bottom line.
Peace be with you
BTW, the good councilman has several ways to contact him online, but would recommend his campaign website and his council position website as the two ways to voice your opinion and get him to reconsider his line of thought. I’ll you find them online easily enough, but doxxing should not be the method to use as we keep it respectfully above board in voicing opinions to him on this topic to change his mind or enlighten him at least (which is part of his cultural heritage). If all 100K in CA alone reached out to him, he would be overwhelmed but maybe understand better what he has started. A good fraction of it would be possibly be enough, but those in CA can determine that.
The chief can only be contacted through the LE office email online.
The incoming City Mgr is currently the Asst CM but his email is also online.
The registry exists for monitoring. What is this extra ordinance to also banish registrants? It appears the registry is now being abused as a weapon of harassment as a form of retribution, which goes above and beyond it’s civil purpose. Registrants cannot be banished for potential future crimes and the recidivism rates for registrants are very low, especially when compared to other crimes.
Again, this is another form of targeting via the registry. Some people use the registry to murder registrants. Some people use the registry to banish registrants.
What is the point of the registry if it’s being used as targeting? The police department already knows where where registrants are living if they’re living in an establishment. In fact, it makes monitoring much easier than trying to monitor homeless registrants.
I do hope ACSOL can step into this situation and point out that acts like this banishment is going above and beyond the civil nature of the registry as well as make the registry more ineffective in creating more homelessness. CDCR translates to California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Being banished and potentially becoming homeless is the opposite of “rehabilitation”. This Redding situation is retributive such that it wants to negate the possibility of rehabilitation, and interfering with the state’s CDCR program.
Again, the registry already monitors registrants. The public wants to impose more burdens on top of monitoring on a subset of rehabilitating individuals. The “imposing more” on top of the registry is a clear distinction the registry no longer is serving its civil purpose.
Cannot leave the good councilman out of it:
Dr. Dhanuka,
Regarding the subject story you are a part of, there seems to be entire missing side to the story about those who are living at the motel in question. Other than the program they are living there under, which does contribute to the local community by conducting business with the motel and providing taxes to the Redding tax coffers, what is the actual and honest problem of them living there as they work to reintegrate into society? Have there been any repeated sexual crime offenses committed by any of those who are convicted of that and living there? Have there been any repeated arson fires committed by those who have an arson conviction and living there?
Before you stop reading this letter altogether, you need to contact The Alliance for Constitutional Sex Offense Laws (ACSOL) (https://all4consolaws.org/) to learn more about this topic overall and in the state of California specifically. Ms. Janice Belluci and her staff (in Sacramento) will be happy to educate and inform you about this topic in greater detail for your professional education and overall knowledge in this area. It will be worth your while, especially if you are going to remain in the medical community and/or city council (or just living as one who needs to understands in your hometown of Redding where you practice).
Other than fearmongering that appears to be perpetuated with your name associated with it, what is the actual problem here? Is there feeling critical mass will happen with these folks living together that something evil will happen? Look objectively look into the those who are impacted by their convictions and their efforts to rise above those who are looking to hold them back. When one objectively looks at the repeated offense rate of those who have sex crime convictions, they are the second lowest overall, only a touch more than those who have a murder conviction. When one objectively looks at the data of those who have first time sex crime convictions, those in positions of trust, e.g., parents, family, friends, clergy, educators, coaches, law enforcement, medical personnel, etc, are more common than those who live in a motel and trying to reintegrate into society. You, professionally by your oath and by your alleged Christian faith, should understand people need to be able to get back up on their feet with the help of those who can and reintegrate into society, which is you. By being NIMBY, you are saying Redding is better than the people are and they need to move along. Caste systems have no place in our society, Sir.
Peace be with you.
I sure hope good councilman and the reporter get inundated with letters, polite letters addressing this entire situation.
Did any of these people staying at the hotel violate any laws? If no, then what is the problem…
A letter to Brian Mayfield:
Greetings, Brian.
After reviewing this article, I see that the whole basis of this motel being scrutinized is based not upon public safety, but misplaced public fear that has poisoned society since Justice Kennedy of the Supreme Court used a 1986 article from ‘Psychology Today’ in a Supreme Court case in which the writer of the article stated that people who committed a sex offense have a ‘frightening and high’ recidivism rate. Not only did the writer of the article recant what he had written when he found out his article had been used in a court case, but also admitted that he had no evidence or data that supported the ‘frightening and high’ recidivism rate, but it was too late. As the old saying goes, ‘the lie will go half-way around the world before the truth can get 10 feet’. The US Supreme Court refuses to admit its mistake and the ‘frightening and high’ recidivism rate myth continues to abound when all the empirical data and studies prove otherwise. Even the Department of Justice did their own study and found the recidivism rate to be about 5.3% — a far cry from ‘frightening and high’.
People on the registry are just trying to get on with their lives and face many obstacles, —more than murderers, bank robbers, etc.— especially to find stable housing, all due to the ‘frightening and high’ re-offense myth.
The only recidivism rate less than that of people who committed a sex offense is for people who committed murder and that is a fact.
Nearly all sex offenses come from people NOT on the registry
You yourself, as a journalist, I am sure, are well aware that nearly all sex offenses come from teachers, doctors, gym coaches, family members, clergy, and law enforcement officers, people that are not already on the registry.
I encourage you to do your own research, and you will find out yourself that the ‘frightening and high’ re-offense rate is a myth.
Lastly, what I also find is that legislators make zoning laws that restrict where PFR can live thereby forcing them to reside in smaller geographical areas, and when they begin to cluster in those areas, the people and law enforcement complain about the results of the very laws they created and make more laws to force them out from there — all because of a myth that all the empirical data prove it is just that — a myth.
So, once again, removing these people is not based upon public safety, but upon mis-directed fear caused by a myth, and I might also add there is NO evidence that sex-offenses have decreased since the registry was enacted — none!!
In conclusion, I hope you consider all that has been written here and I hope it has not been in vain, and remember the code of journalism which include principles such as accuracy, fairness, and objectivity. Journalists are expected to seek truth, minimize harm, act independently, and be accountable to the public while ensuring the ethical gathering and reporting of information.
Thank you for your time, and have a great day!