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California Passes a Law Restricting Sex Offenders from Teaching

By Corey Rayburnyung

Via Crime & Consequences, there is an AP story about new California efforts to keep sex offenders from teaching at public schools. The new laws close loopholes in California's teacher licensing system that had allowed some teachers accused or even convicted of serious crimes to remain in the classroom. The bills by Sen. Bob Margett, a Republican, and Sen. Jack Scott, a Democrat, were prompted by an Associated Press investigation last year into sexual misconduct by teachers. Margett's bill allows the state to revoke licenses from teachers who plead no contest to certain sex crimes or drug offenses without waiting for a discretionary review that can sometimes take two or three years. No contest pleas are a common legal agreement that allows a defendant to avoid a trial or civil liability but still leads to conviction...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Crimes on September 30, 2008 (boomark / email).