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| Halfway Houses Still Not Allowed In County |
| By swrnn.com |
| Published: 08/11/2010 |
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The Riverside County Board of Supervisors voted today to extend an emergency ordinance prohibiting the operation of halfway houses in the region. Last month, the board enacted an urgency measure — taking effect immediately instead of the customary 30 days — that made it unlawful to open or run parolee-probationer “group” homes in the county’s unincorporated communities. State-licensed facilities serving fewer than six people are exempt. The action was one of several taken by the board in response to a now- abandoned plan by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to release a convicted child murderer to a group home in Good Hope, near Perris. Donald Schmidt, 38, sodomized and forcibly drowned a 3-year-old girl in a bathtub in 1987. Read More. |
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