Calif. courts strike down local sex-offender ordinances
By Sam Stanton, Sacramento Bee
The California Supreme Court has left intact a lower-court ruling that invalidates local ordinances aimed at restricting the movements of registered sex offenders in dozens of cities statewide.
The court’s decision Wednesday not to hear a case involving a Southern California sex offender means city and county ordinances banning such offenders from public parks and other public areas no longer may be enforced, attorneys say. Instead, a state law governing where sex offenders on parole may live now stands as the main restriction.
“If I read the tea leaves correctly, it’s probably dead everywhere in California,” Susan Kang Schroeder, chief of staff to Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas said Thursday.
WTF!!! Convicted = loss of being around children and where they are. Forever.
There really needs to be a legal distinction made between RSO’s who are pedophiles or rapists and the drunk idiot caught relieving themself in an alley-or in Tahoe’s case-because we don’t have alleys-behind a dumpster. If one is a rapist or child molester then I agree with the law, and with the woman in Washington who took the baseball bat to the guy(RSO) who was chatting up her kid.
As for sex offenders complaining about access, don’t commit the crime, and you will have access to all this country has to offer, if you commit the crime, be thankful that you don’t get locked up the rest of your days, at least you can live life on the outside with some restrictions to protect you from yourself.
Bluewater and Hmmm. This is a tough one. I have no pity for child molesters. Yet, it would seem harsh to classify a drunk relieving himself behind a dumpster as such. Also. What about drug sales, rape, incest, manslaughter, domestic violence, arson, grand theft auto and other felony crimes? As a society, do we track each one of these offenders for perpetuity too?
Is it just a sign that we have thrown our hands up and give up on certain people? I have heard that child molesters have a high recidivism rate. If so, then taking Bluewaters thought to conclusion we would have to make child molestation a life sentence because I just don’t see how you keep certain people away from all children in our society.
Certain crimes should carry the death penalty.