A lawsuit has been filed against the San Diego Police Department on behalf of more than 100 local sex offender registrants who are challenging requirements that they must register in person during the coronavirus pandemic, while state and local governments ask that residents stay home to prevent the virus’ spread.
The lawsuit was filed by the Alliance for Constitutional Sex Offense Laws, which also filed similar lawsuits this week in Riverside and Sacramento counties.
It asks for a judge to issue an order halting the practice of having registered sex offenders appear in person at San Diego Police Department headquarters, and instead adopt video conferencing or telephonic updates, as implemented by the Los Angeles Police Department and other state agencies during the pandemic.
Plaintiffs’ attorneys say the registrants represented in the suit “have high-risk COVID-19 factors such as age and/or chronic diseases (diabetes, asthma and hypertension).”
Whoa…Great work Janice!
Have any of the SD, Sacramento police response to any of those lawsuit. yet?
This is going to be interesting..
I wonder what chickenshit defense they’ll come up with?
Probably something along the lines of: “The threat that sex offenders pose to public safety do not go away. Even under a historic national crisis, they’ll continue to seek out our vulnerable children.” LOL
Is there any ability or willingness to expand this beyond reporting? I’m still on supervision and had to go to a polygraph today, plus still have to do group therapy, etc. All of these are in violation of the Governor’s and city orders.