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Criminal

Oct. 1, 2009

Sex Offenders Avoid Housing Rule

Trial judges have quietly been allowing paroled sex offenders to live near places where children gather, as they await direction from the state Supreme Court.

By Greg Katz

Daily Journal Staff Writer

Trial court judges across California have quietly been allowing paroled sex offenders to live near places where children gather, as they await direction from the state Supreme Court on a challenge to Jessica's Law provisions limiting where sex offenders can live.

The state corrections department says 47 paroled sex offenders have been granted stays of the Jessica's Law housing ru...

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