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CA - Editorial: Jessica's Law doesn't have it right

View the article here 02/13/2009 LIKE TOO MANY voter-approved initiatives that weren't very well thought out, Proposition 83, also known as Jessica's Law, has had costly, unforeseen consequences. The ballot measure, backed by 70 percent of voters, prohibits paroled sex offenders from living within 2,000 feet of a school, park where children regularly gather. A major flaw of Prop. 83 is that it makes no distinction between pedophiles and those convicted of committing crimes against adults. Though it makes little sense to ban sex offenders who prey on grown people from areas frequented by kids. The result? Thousands of paroled sex offenders in California have had difficulty finding any place where they can legally live in urban centers like the Bay Area...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues on February 13, 2009 (boomark / email).