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Lots of litigation around California sex offender residency restrictions

By Douglas A. Berman

This local California article, which is headlined "Court challenges mount against sex offender law," effectively reports on the copious litigation surrounding the state's sex offender residency restrictions. Here are some details: Hundreds of paroled sex offenders are winning reprieves from a ban against their living near schools or parks as they flood local courts with constitutional challenges to the most controversial part of Jessica's Law. Judges in Contra Costa and elsewhere have routinely issued stays permitting sex offender parolees to ignore the ban on their living within 2,000 feet of a school or park where children "regularly gather," pending rulings in their cases.  The slow pace of those challenges means the stays could last until their parole terms expire and the restrictions no longer affect them...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on December 22, 2010 (boomark / email).