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Court challenges mount against sex offender law

By "eAdvocate"

12-22-2010 California: 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. In the East Bay, at least a few dozen sex offenders have challenged the ban. "I am seeing more, that's for sure," said Martinez attorney David Briggs...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues, News, Recidivism and Studies on December 22, 2010 (boomark / email).