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Notable commentary about California's sex offender residency restrictions

By Douglas A. Berman

A couple of major papers in California have a couple of notable commentaries about the state's sex offender residency restrictions.  First, the Sacremento Bee has this editorial, headlined "Jessica's Law needs a major overhaul." Here is a snippet: Proposition 83, the 2006 initiative popularly known as Jessica's Law, banned sexual predators from living within 2,000 feet of public and private schools and parks where children regularly congregate. The initiative promised that those restrictions would make us all safer.  Voters believed the sales job, approving the measure overwhelmingly, 70.5 percent for it and 29.5 percent against. As it turned out, the measure has fallen short of promises. Unrealistic restrictions have made it impossible for hundreds of paroled sex offenders to find legal places to live...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on November 16, 2010 (boomark / email).