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CA - TEMECULA: Commission approves Jessica's Law change

View the article here 01/29/2009 By AARON CLAVERIE Idea adds day care centers to school, park restrictions TEMECULA - An ordinance that would make it a misdemeanor for a registered sex offender to live near a day care center crossed a key hurdle Thursday when it was approved by a city commission. The Public/Traffic Safety Commission commission voted unanimously to send the ordinance, which aims to strengthen the state's law on where sex offenders can live, to the City Council. Under the provisions of Jessica's Law, approved by the state's voters in 2006, registered sex offenders cannot move into a residence within 2,000 feet of a school or park. Temecula's proposed ordinance would take the law a step further by making it a misdemeanor for a registered sex offender to move into a residence within 2,000 feet of a day care center, school or park...continue to full post

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