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California loosens sex offender law

March 29, 2015

sexoffenderCalifornia officials announced Thursday that the state will no longer impose the portion of Jessica’s Law that forbids all sex offenders from living within 2,000 feet of a school or park. Instead, only those offenders whose crimes involved children under 14 and some high-risk offenders will be prohibited from living near schools and parks. [LATimes]

The shift comes nine years after California voters approved the controversial law, which has made it difficult for some sex offenders to find a place to live.

On March 2, nine years after California voters approved Megan’s Law, the California Supreme Court ruled that Jessica’s Law violated the constitutional rights of parolees living in San Diego County. Primarily because the limitations made it impossible for sex-offenders to obtain housing. As a result, many were living on the streets making them difficult to track.

“While the court’s ruling is specific to San Diego County, its rationale is not,” California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation spokesman Luis Patino said Thursday. “After reviewing the court’s analysis, the state attorney general’s office advised CDCR that applying the blanket mandatory residency restrictions of Jessica’s Law would be found to be unconstitutional in every county.”

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In response to agag1 and others, there is a place for these sex offenders and it would be just

fine with me if they just stayed there forever. It is called Coalinga State Hospital

and it was specially built for Sexually Violent Predators and other sex offenders at a cost of

$400,000,000.00. Yes that is correct 400 million dollars. It is a beautiful state of the art

facility with a gymnasium, library, music rooms, art rooms, hobby and craft rooms, beautifully

landscaped outdoor garden areas, sports areas for baseball, track etc. There is a restaurant,

barbershop, and the dorms have names like Bass Lake, Clear Lake, it is beautifully painted in

bright hues with wide hallways that make it look like a state of the art airport or mall.

Only problem is they built it in Coalinga and they cannot keep the facility properly staffed.

Nobody wants to live in Coalinga or even better live in Fresno and commute.

This is where we put the worst of the worst of society but cannot seem to fund our colleges,

homeless shelters or have decent programs and living facilities for the developmentally

disabled. But such is the state of our state.


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Lily,

I believe you are getting thumbs down votes because the place you describe is WAAAAAAY too nice for the criminals we are speaking about. We don’t want them to have a nice day, we want them to suffer as their victims will, for the rest of their lives.

The hospital sounds like it could be put to better use if it served people who deserve to be treated in such a nice facility–maybe converted to a veteran’s hospital or ???


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Who are we to say its wrong and stand in the way between the love of a man and a child. Aren’t laws against pedophilia discriminatory? Aren’t people born pedophiles?


Interesting when society abandons moral behavior. Anything goes right?


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So it’s totally ok to you if an 18 year old boy gets tagged as a sex offender because he is convicted of statutory rape because his girlfriend at the time was 16 or 17. And even after serving his time, it’s ok to continue to harass and restrict him for the rest of his life?


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As those sex offenders begin to act out (inner circle behavior they call it in Sex Addicts Anonymous),they will create victims. The victims then (if they report the crime) have options to attend therapy and become clients. There are many things that these clients report: they could experience night terrors, unreasonable fears and possibly anxiety and panic attacks. They may also develop depression, an impaired ability to trust, and a multitude of intimacy and attachment issues. And, they also could develop chronic Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Dissociative Identity Disorder (multiple personalities), or even Borderline Personality Disorder.They may later “act out”. Acting out means: they inflict their sexual pain on others, creating even more victims/offenders.


The State of California pays for this therapy-if they enter the legal system. And, that is how sick politics like this are.


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This all would be fixed quickly if every Judge had their house broken into, their car stolen, their wife raped, their kids on drugs and a close relative murdered.

The way it looks, somewhere in the future there may be no crime.


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If the state continually lessens the penalties for these kind of heinous crimes it make vigilantism more attractive. Does “get a rope” ring a bell?


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What the hell is happening to this state? Why all the reformation? Illegals are now legal, mental illness is left unchecked, felons are granted amnesty,we’re building a bullet train to the poor house, tyhe death penalty is cruel and unusual punishment, and central valley farmers are drying up….what a place!


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now sex offenders are legally allowed to live by schools or parks so there not living on the streets making them difficult to track? they should all be given a limp so they can be publicly identified by anyone


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IMO it is not possible to keep these offenders too far away from children.

There is no place far enough away from society to suit me.


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“the state will no longer impose the portion of Jessica’s Law”. oh, listen to all the excuses. put them out in the high or low desert. feel sorry for them? WTF


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