FROM THE ALLIANCE FOR CONSTITUTIONAL SEX OFFENSE LAWS
A lawsuit has been filed in Kern County Superior Court which challenges the residency and presence restrictions in that county. According to those restrictions, registrants — including those convicted as juveniles — are prohibited from living within 2,000 feet of schools, parks, day care centers and other locations where children regularly gather. In addition, registrants may not visit a day care center for any reason.
According to the lawsuit, the impact of the residency restrictions is that it eliminates the possibility of a registrant living in about 97 percent of Kern County. The penalty for violating any of the county’s restrictions is a fine of up to $1,000 and up to six months in jail or both.
“The Kern County residency restrictions have broken up families, including a family in which a loving son wishes to live with his mother,” stated ACSOL Executive Director Janice Bellucci. “Not only are the restrictions inhumane, they also violate the federal and state constitutions.”
The Kern County lawsuit is the thirty-second lawsuit challenging residency restrictions adopted by local governments. The first lawsuit, filed in June 2015, challenged residency restrictions in the City of Grover Beach.
“As a result of the lawsuits that have been filed, 30 cities have significantly modified or repealed their residency restrictions,” stated Bellucci. “We have made significant progress during the past three years by restoring families and eradicating unlawful restrictions.”
Of all the articles posted about residency restrictions, can anyone answer this inconsistency? Why is it not OK for me to live within 2000-2500 feet of parks, daycares..etc. but perfectly OK for me to live across the street (50 feet) from a family with a juvenile and have children play in the street in front of my house? (Sometimes you could live in an apartment even closer)
Doug, please don’t expect these laws and ordinances to make any sense. You will be sadly let down. Trying to figure out the sense in this bureaucratic non-sense is about as confusing as ‘herding cats’.
@ Doug, becareful there you don’t wanna give any politic any ideas. Remember it is election year no telling what people will scrap off the bottom of the barrel and elect to office
I have high hopes that Brevard County, Florida, will soon be called to account for its un-constitutional distance limiting ordinance…2006-31.