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| Boost to monitor sex offenders failing |
| By The Union-Tribune |
| Published: 02/14/2008 |
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CALIFORNIA - A new law aimed at protecting children by imposing tough residency restrictions and lifetime electronic monitoring of sex offenders has failed to deliver on its promise and could be making the state less safe. Fifteen months after Proposition 83 passed with a tidal wave of voter support, there is no money and no plan to implement one of its main provisions: requiring Global Positioning System monitoring of sex offenders for life. Meanwhile, the provision banning sex offenders from living within 2,000 feet of schools and parks has made it so difficult for them to find housing that hundreds are homeless. Statistics from the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation show that since officials started enforcing the law six months ago, 572 sex offenders have declared themselves homeless. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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