2-19-2015 California:
When an Orange County law gets struck down by the courts, try, try again with the state Legislature. That's apparently the attitude of two Orange County Assembly members who have proposed a bill that would allow cities to ban sex offenders from public parks.
California Supreme Court Essentially Strikes Down Orange County's Pervs-in-Parks Ban
Pervs-in-parks bans swept California cities after the Orange County Board of Supervisors adopted a law in April 2011 doing just that written by Supervisor Shawn Nelson and District Attorney Tony Rackauckas. But many of those same cities rolled back the municipal ordinances after appellate judges found they were unconstitutional.
Many cities have and, if they still have the laws in their books, continue to find themselves sued by California Reform Sex Offender Laws, which was founded by Santa Maria lawyer Janice Bellucci. Two Orange County cities had their laws struck down following suits that were not filed by Bellucci's nonprofit. The threat of having to dip into municipal funds to defend bans led other OC cities to spike their ordinances.
Speaking of spiking, Bellucci has vowed to try to get the bill by Assemblymen Bill Brough (R-Dana Point) and Matthew Harper (R-Huntington Beach) defeated.
"People's civil rights are being violated extensively, and there's no increase to public safety," Bellucci reportedly told the Orange County Register, citing statistics from the California Sex Offender Management Board that show 93 percent of sex offenders victimize children they know and that only 1.8 percent commit sex offenses after being paroled from prison.
Like the Orange County ordinance that preceded it, the proposed bill would prohibit registered sex offenders from entering public parks, beaches and other public recreational areas unless they have the permission of the local police chief or sheriff.
"At the end of the day, it's about the safety of kids," Brough told the Register's Meghann M. Cuniff. "The locals know what they need, and they're on the front lines and they can make the best decisions on what's best for their community."
But his bill may face a tough road in the Democrat-controlled Legislature. Two Orange County Democrats--hey, remember those?--authored separate bills in 2013-14 aimed at enabling local jurisdictions to restrict where sex offenders can go. Neither bill by former state Sen. Lou Correa of Santa Ana and former Assemblywoman Sharon Quirk-Silva of Fullerton gained backing. ..Source.. by Matt Coker
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February 19, 2015
Dept. of Where Have I Heard This Before: OC Assemblymen Propose Pervs-in-Parks Ban
January 24, 2015
New Oklahoma Bills affecting state sex offenders
Someday I'd love to be able to do this for all states, but today not possible. Reading and interpreting bills takes time.1-24-2015 Oklahoma:
It appears there are 29 new bills affecting something to do with sex offenses and or offenders, of those 6 (six) are problematic. They are:
HB 1057 Prisons and reformatories; requiring payment of fee under certain circumstances; (This bill permits charging, effective 11-1-2015, a $25.00 fee for new registrations and also changes of addresses. Unclear is, will this be required of folks in prison?)....
HB-2153 Driver licenses; directing the Department of Public Safety to include certain exemption provision on driver license and identification card applications; repealer. (This bill handles religious exemptions related to biometric identification. Something we are not familiar with, anyone can chime in on this and help in understanding this bill.)
SB-167 Restrictions on convicted sex offenders; modifying inclusions on residency restrictions. (This bill expands the scope of residency restrictions to include homeowner associations and towns; obviously missed when residency restrictions were first enacted.)
SB-537 Long-Term Care Security Act; removing certain requirement. (This bill extends background checks for employment in long term care facilities and permits termination or refusal of employment to folks convicted of certain offenses (see 1-1950.1) This may or may not be good as we are not aware of what it was before this bill.)
SB-578 Sex offenders; allowing Department of Corrections to initiate certain proposals; providing definitions. (The essence of this bill is establish a SEPARATE long term care facility for Level II-III sex offenders needing care and any incarcerated critically or terminally ill offender. The main pro0blem here is it would be run by the Dep't of Corrections and not the State Dep't of Health, which likely means it would be prisonlike. Level II-III offenders normally are in the community so this would clearly affect their freedom. We would oppose handling Level II-III offenders in such an environment.)
SB-671 Violent sex offenders; authorizing certain chemical treatment for certain offenders. (There is nothing scarier than lawmakers and DOC personnel mandating any form of castration without a medical doctor intervening to protect the life of the person affected; and what about women convicted of the offenses mentioned. This bill is a train wreck in the wrong hands, hopefully there will be someone to put the kibosh on this bill before it kills someone.)
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