Rallying support for Chelsea’s Law
To the community,
In the continuing effort to better protect California’s children from violent sexual predators, I want to urge you to take part in the Chelsea’s Law Petition Drive.
Chelsea’s Law, which you can read about in detail here, is a bill pending before the Legislature. It was named after San Diego teenager Chelsea King, whose life was tragically taken by a convicted sex offender earlier this year.
Ted Gaines
The initial goal of the Chelsea’s Law Petition Drive is to collect 20,000 signatures from across the state. The signed petitions will ultimately be presented to the Legislature as official testimony in support of the bill.
To express your support for this critical measure which will go a long way toward reforming California’s sex offender laws, please print out this petition and circulate it among your family and friends.The petition can be downloaded here and mailed to:
Attention 75th Assembly District
9909 Mira Mesa Blvd., Ste. 130
San Diego, CA 92131
Please return completed petitions by June 10.
Just think — if each of us commits to asking 10 of our friends and neighbors to sign the petition, we can truly demonstrate that we are serious about making changes to protect children from violent sexual predators.
We still have some convincing to do in the Legislature before we can make Chelsea’s Law a reality, so we really need your support. Thank you.
Sincerely,
Ted Gaines, California Assembly 4th District
Another law, including this one, would not have helped Chelsea King. Nor would another law have helped our beloved Jaycee Dugard. There are enough laws.
Mr. Gaines, what will you do to ensure the cops and probation officers do a better job. The guy who killed Chelsea should not have been released, and when he was, should have been better supervised. The same for the man who held Jaycee. On probation and no one did more than the minimum.
Take a bolder step than passing a new law named after another teenager or woman killed.
Stop letting the state’s budget be held hostage by the overpaid probation officers and prison guards under the CA Dept of Corrections, renamed Rehabilitation and Corrections. This union is breaking our state and its time you held these people to better job performance. The union gives you and other millions of dollars to elect your jobs and tout the fear of crime so they can continue their overpaid jobs. Few if any prison guards have more than a high school diploma, same for probation officers.
When they fail to do their job, and fail to protect our young women, they still get paid.
Hold THEM accountable for their mistakes. Both Chelsea and Jaycee would not have been harmed if the Dept of Corrections had done their jobs.
Fix the real problem. The public knows where that lies, why don’t you?
Another law you can say you passed to get reelected won’t and wouldn’t have changed a thing
Hi John, I totally understand where you are coming from believe me, and I feel so let down by the system regarding all of these children and what happened to Jaycee was just unbelievably an example of the law enforcers in the system not linking, and following the rules to protect our kids, by ensuring they check every detail of these offenders, and not getting relaxed in the parole meetings with them, just so they can move on to the next, while a child is in the back yard being raped..but you see that is EXACTLY why this law,CHELSEA’S LAW is different. It is saying NO tolerance..this is the final straw. Other laws help us to help ourselves with info like megans law, but we NEED Chelsea’s law. When they commit a sex crime on a child, they go to prison for life, thats it! No 2nd chance to do it again, no room for them to get mixed and lost in the system and not being kept up with, and figuring out which sex offenders are in the area that they could possibly check when a child goes missing, and they still miss, like with Gardner, and the one who took Jaycee. See if this were a law then it WOULD have helped jaycee, amber, and chelsea, and also many others including justin boxom in louisiana, because all of their killers had COMMITTED A PRIOR VIOLENT SEX CRIME ON A CHILD AND WOULD HAVE BEEN THE EXAMPLE OF WHO WOULD GO TO PRISON FOR LIFE WITH THIS LAW. THEY WOULD HAVE ALL BEEN IN PRISON FOR LIFE, away from our children.
That’s why when I heard lawmakers were trying to get the kings to make adjustments to the law, I hoped no way, there cant be any ways that attorneys, courts, etc. can plea bargain, or let someone out early after they are commit a violent sex crime on a child, that is when we lose track, and they lose track, and like a weasle, they slip into our neigborhood and strike again, and next time worse..This law IS different
oh and let me say one more thing because this is seeming to be a big concern for boys in their teens to 22..This law is not focused on YOU. As far as the 19 year old with the 16 year old girlfriend, worring they will go to prison to life if they support the law, that is so far from the truth..If anything this law’s focus on the repeat sex offenders and child molesters are really all the kings, and other parents want. This is a parent’s law to protect their child from a violent sexual criminal and ultimately killer. I think the kings would have only wished now that chelsea’s issue that they may have disagreed with is that she may have been dating a 19 year old. This goes without saying, a 19 year old, who rapes a girl,16 for example, and hurts her, puts fear in her, will do time, and that’s how it was before..all I can say to that guy is DONT DO IT..think before you get yourself caught in the heat of passion, because you will pay the price….parents will protect their children with this law.