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: Legal Pad | LASex offender restrictions increase homelessness, finds San Diego sergeant
By Jason Siegel
The new laws in San Diego restricting where former sex offenders can live has led to a 40 percent increase in sex offenders registering as homeless, San Diego Police Sgt. Mark Sullivan told a community forum on the laws yesterday.
About one in 20 registered sex offenders* in San Diego County are listed as transient, Sullivan told NBC San Diego.
The forum was organized by City Attorney Mike Aguirre to discuss legal issues around San Diego's new residency restrictions on former sex offenders and the Child Protection Act, passed last month, which bans registered sex offenders from coming within 300 feet of schools, day-care centers, arcades, playgrounds, parks and amusement centers.
A panel at the forum included law enforcement officials and children's health and sex offender management experts.
*Approx. 200 of the 3,931 former sex offenders
Full post as published by Legal Pad | LA on March 20, 2008 (boomark / email).
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