1. Board wants to remove low-risk sex offenders from registry
Melody Gutierrez
Updated 4:02 am, Sunday, May 25, 2014

"The California Sex Offender Management Board is recommending to the Legislature that only high-risk offenders, such as kidnappers and sexually violent predators, should be required to register for life. Others could be removed from the registry 10 to 20 years after the offense."

My note: "violent", however, can mean many things.


2. California courts strike down local sex-offender ordinances
By Sam Stanton
sstanton@sacbee.com
Published: Thursday, Apr. 24, 2014 - 10:58 pm
Last Modified: Friday, Apr. 25, 2014 - 12:16 am

" The California Supreme Court has left intact a lower-court ruling that invalidates local ordinances aimed at restricting the movements of registered sex offenders in dozens of cities statewide.

The court’s decision Wednesday not to hear a case involving a Southern California sex offender means city and county ordinances banning such offenders from public parks and other public areas no longer may be enforced, attorneys say. Instead, a state law governing where sex offenders on parole may live now stands as the main restriction."


I expect, however, that some state legislator will, to garner votes, put forth a new law to cover those the California Supreme Court has invalidated.