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CA - TEMECULA: Commission looking at Jessica's Law change

View the article here 01/26/2009 By AARON CLAVERIE - Staff Writer Sex offenders might be banned from living near day care centers TEMECULA ---- Sex offenders no longer will be allowed to live within 2,000 feet of a day care center if an ordinance before the city's Public/Traffic Safety Commission is eventually adopted by the city. Proposition 83 (PDF), or Jessica's Law, was passed by the state's voters in 2006 to track paroled sex offenders with global positioning system technology and limit a sex offender's access to housing near areas with large numbers of children ---- specifically, schools and parks. A provision of the law allows a city to add restrictions on where sex offenders can live, the legal undergirding for the proposed ordinance...continue to full post

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