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Sex offenders needing to move over counted
By Mercury News
Published: 09/25/2007

CALIFORNIA - The state corrections department over-counted by nearly one-third the number of paroled sex offenders who risked being sent back to prison if they did not move from their homes because they live too close to schools and parks, a spokesman said Monday.

The department announced 2 1/2 weeks ago that it had notified 2,741 parolees that they had 45 days to relocate because of Jessica's Law. But 968 of them are either missing, dead, back in custody, have completed parole or aren't really sex offenders, said Oscar Hidalgo, spokesman for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Read more.

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