California Supreme Court
Dec. 5, 2014
State high court justices say Jessica's Law has backfired
In two cases this week, the state Supreme Court left no doubt that the 2006 ballot measure Jessica's Law, forbidding registered sex offenders from living within 2,000 feet of schools and parks, was a well-intended but bad law.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
In two cases this week, the state Supreme Court left no doubt that the 2006 ballot measure Jessica's Law, forbidding registered sex offenders from living within 2,000 feet of schools and parks, was a well-intended but bad law that had backfired in its goal of improving public safety.
"There are roaming groups of [sex offenders] who have nowhere to live," Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye ...
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