6-19-2010 California:
SCONDIDO (CNS) - Legislation aimed at requiring registered sex offenders to have distinctive driver's licenses was rejected in the state Senate Transportation Committee, it was reported Wednesday.
Maurice "Moe" Dubois, the father of slain Escondido teenager Amber Dubois, has been working with Assemblyman Pedro Nava, D-Santa Barbara, to come up with legislation for better coordinating law enforcement efforts when a child is abducted.
On Tuesday, senators voted to reject the legislation 5-2 along party lines, with Democrats opposed, The San Diego Union-Tribune reported. Committee members worried over how such a law might brand minor offenders. They also complained that it did not include penalties for noncompliance, the newspaper reported.
"They brought up some points that we have to recognize are valid. We will have to rework it," Dubois said after testifying before the committee.
The Dubois spent more than a year looking for their 14-year-old daughter, who disappeared in Feb. 13, 2009 while walking to Escondido High School.
After his arrest for the Feb. 25 rape and murder of 17-year-old Chelsea King, sex offender John Albert Gardner III led authorities to Amber's remains in Pala.
Gardner, 31, later pleaded guilty to raping and murdering both teens and was sentenced to a pair of life prison terms without the possibility of parole. He also admitted attacking another young woman in December in the same park where Chelsea was killed, but that victim managed to get away. ..SOurce.. KUSI News
June 19, 2010
Sex offender driver's license legislation rejected by senate committee
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I'm glad to see this. It's not necessary that every time some kids gets killed, the politician's pass another law.
Megan's law public registry has now become ineffective, the Adam Walsh Act will prove to be more costly to implement and has not saved even one child since it's implementation and even the Supreme Courts recent decision in Comstock is really designed to give the federal government more right to force federal law on the U.S. Citizen than to put a dangerous sex offender behind bars.
America really needs to wake up. REALLY!!
Stop listening to the politician's and for heaven's sake STOP LISTING TO JOHN WALSH.
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