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CA - Parolees to be homeless sooner

View the article here 02/22/2009 By Christian Burkin - Record Staff Writer New state policy limits housing help to 60 days STOCKTON - When _____, a registered sex offender on parole, was left homeless in December, he built a small trailer to sleep in and hitched it to the back of his truck. "I got a bedroom on wheels," he said. _____, 59, declined to provide his last name. That would cause him too much trouble, he said. He is one of thousands affected by a recent change in state policy to limit housing assistance to parolees to 60 days. Many of them, particularly in Stockton, were housed in motels near freeways and in rundown parts of town, far away from schools and parks. The change has rendered dozens of registered sex offenders in Stockton homeless and may hurt the livelihoods of local motel operators who have transformed their businesses to accommodate the state's needs...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues on February 22, 2009 (boomark / email).