CA: School District Warned Regarding Support for Residency Restrictions

The Lakeside Union School District (LUSD), located in San Diego county, was warned in a letter sent yesterday of the dangers it would face if it chooses to support residency restrictions.  Local parents and other residents of Lakeside, California, recently demanded that LUSD support residency restrictions due to their concerns about registrants who live near local schools.

“Once again, the public is reacting out of fear and ignoring the facts regarding registrants,” stated ACSOL Executive Director Janice Bellucci.  “Their fear is based upon the mistaken belief that all registrants pose a current danger.”

The letter to LUSD cited a report issued by both the California Sex Offender Management Board stating that “there is no evidence to support the assumption that residence restrictions are or would be effective in reducing sexual offending and thereby making communities actually safer.”  Instead, the report stated that “there is compelling evidence which suggests that residence restrictions are actually counterproductive with regard to increasing community safety.”  

The letter also cited a report issued by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation stating that a registrant on parole is unlikely to re-offend because their rate of re-offense is less than one percent.  Copies of both reports were provided to LUSD with the letter.

In addition, the letter noted that the California Supreme Court overturned residency restrictions in San Diego county during the past decade.  In its decision, the Court noted that the blanket application of residency restrictions “cannot survive even rational basis review” because they “impose[] harsh and severe restrictions and disabilities on the affected parolees’ liberty and privacy rights,…, while producing conditions that hamper, rather than foster, efforts to monitor, supervise, and rehabilitate these persons.”

Finally, the letter advised LUSD to reconsider its possible support for unnecessary and destructive policies such as residency restrictions. If LUSD ignores this advice and legislation is introduced establishing residency restrictions, ACSOL will challenge that legislation in court.

Download the letter:

Lakeside School District – Aug 2023

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here in San diego we call Lakeside REDNECK-VILLE/LAND ! After all they eeven have a rodeo !

Thank you, Janice, for such a well-worded and eloquent letter. Hopefully they will wise-up and reconsider this nonsense.

Can Oklahoma borrow Janice for a little while?

Not as long as Janice is alive haha. Go get em. We’ve been down this road before and won, and we’re gonna win again. These guys are a bunch of sore, losers.

Lakeside is just another Fontucky. It’s no coincidence that those two cities are amongst the last deadenders to fight for the ordinances