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Government

Jun. 6, 2014

Santa Maria attorney picking up wins for sex offender registrants

Janice Bellucci is engaging in an aggressive media and legal strategy to reform the state's sex offender registry and vacate laws restricting their movements. And she has already scored several successes.


By Emily Green


Daily Journal Staff Writer


Janice Bellucci has never been in trouble with the law. Yet the Santa Maria lawyer has been called a child molester attorney, a pedophile attorney and worse. She's undeterred in representing the interests of the state's roughly 100,000 registered sex offenders. Bellucci is a former Air Force lawyer, the wife of a pastor and mother of two kids. She likens her cause to that of Jesus cleansing lepers. Sex o...

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