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CA - Free rent for sex offenders - Just the typical witch hunt mentality!

View the article here 04/27/2009 Alamitos Beach residents need help in cleaning up high-priced flophouses. There are few neighborhood leaders more passionate than Mike Wilson, who heads the Alamitos Beach Homeowners Association. But he has a lot to be passionate about. His Long Beach neighborhood has become infested by a collection of businesses that operate without a license, collect apartment rents far above usual rates, pack in tenants six to a unit and, much to the neighbors' anguish, specialize in housing sex offenders. What is particularly galling is that the California Department of Corrections picks up the tab. - Well, sex offenders have to live somewhere! In a column published Sunday on our Comment page, Wilson let fly at prison bureaucrats who pay $1,300 a month (and sometimes nearly twice that) for a bed in a small building that in one case housed 16 offenders with no treatment and no supervision whose raucous behavior last year provoked 201 police calls...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues on April 28, 2009 (boomark / email).