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L.A. Times Calls for Jessica's Law to be Rewritten or Dropped

By Corey Rayburnyung

The Los Angeles Times is running an interesting editorial calling for Jessica's Law to be dropped or rewritten, since it "is unaffordable and doesn't improve safety." From the Los Angeles Times:Of all the ill-considered ballot initiatives approved by California voters over the years, few can match Jessica's Law for sheer self-destructiveness. The measure, billed as a way to protect children from sexual predators when it appeared on the ballot in 2006 as Proposition 83, is worsening the yawning state budget gap amid zero evidence that it's protecting anyone -- in fact, according to a state panel, it may be threatening public safety.This page warned that the initiative would be an expensive mistake, but that didn't stop 70% of voters from approving it...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Crimes on January 19, 2009 (boomark / email).