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Jessica's Law in California

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Last night's News Hour on PBS had a report by Jeffrey Kaye, "Laws Restricting Lives of Sex Offenders Raise Constitutional Questions."JEFFREY KAYE: It's no surprise that sex offenders are critical of Jessica's Law, but so, too, are many police officials and victims' rights advocates.SUZANNE BROWN-MCBRIDE, California Sex Offender Management Board: I can tell you that it hasn't resolved the sex offender problem in California. JEFFREY KAYE: Suzanne Brown-McBride is executive director of the California Coalition Against Sexual Assault, as well as the chairperson of the state board that shapes sex offender policies in California. She fears residency restrictions are backfiring and driving sex offenders off the radar screen. SUZANNE BROWN-MCBRIDE: So you go from a place where you have an offender where you know where they live, you know where they're sleeping, you can check up on them and monitor them, to they're transient and you have only really a guess of where they're at, that they may be down at some different part of the city, they may be down in an alley somewhere...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 18, 2008 (boomark / email).