Calif. Sex Offenders Go Homeless

AP via SFGate ^ | 10/31/7 | DON THOMPSON, Associated Press Writer

[SmithL]

Executing child molesters would solve a LOT of problems.

[Badeye]

They could have found most of them at the Cow Palace just a couple of nights ago....

[goldstategop]

Agreed. We're being accused of not being compassionate enough towards scum who prey on our children. What we should really be doing is making sure they can never re-offend again.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[Sonny M]

Why don't they try just killing themselves and going to hell?

That would solve the problem nicely.

[Beagle8U]

Send them to NYC and they can get a drivers license and a new life.

Why couldn’t they claim to be an illegal alien with no ID and just pick a new name?

[2ndDivisionVet]

Set up bare-bones camps for them in the wilds of Alaska where they’ll be away from the temptation of children.

[ModelBreaker]

"We could potentially be making the world more dangerous rather than less dangerous," said therapist Gerry Blasingame, past chairman of the California Coalition on Sexual Offending

Actually, what they are doing is polluting other states with their filth.

[Thud]

It's a pretty silly law, which makes it perfect for California. The City and County of San Francisco is so small (four miles across) that I doubt there is any part of it where people subject to this law can reside, but at the same time they'd violate their probation if they left the City. So merely breathing violates their probation.

The legislature here would repeal the law of gravity if you paid them to do it. I doubt this law will survive a federal constitutional challenge.

[BBell]

I wonder how they define a sex offender. Doe’s it include someone who slaps the wrong person’s butt and is slapped with a sexual assault conviction?

[VOA]

bump

[Thud]

17 year-old boy takes a picture of his 15 year-old girlfriend’s naked breasts with his camera phone and emails it to a friend, who posts it on the internet. That makes both boys into internet pornographers and sex offenders, at the prosecutor’s discretion.

[untrained skeptic]

Why couldn’t they claim to be an illegal alien with no ID and just pick a new name?

To get the illegal alien drivers license in New York you need to present a valid passport. You can't just claim to be someone else. I suspect there will be few illegal aliens that actually apply for the New York Driver's license. Spitzer is just putting on a show of helping illegal aliens, but the IDs are pretty much useless and can only be gotten if the illegal alien gets or has a passport from their home country.

[calcowgirl]

It's a pretty silly law, which makes it perfect for California. The City and County of San Francisco is so small (four miles across) that I doubt there is any part of it where people subject to this law can reside, but at the same time they'd violate their probation if they left the City. So merely breathing violates their probation.

Yep. I voted against it for some of those same reasons. Unfortunately, even on FR, people started in with the mantra of "you must support sex offenders" when I said I opposed it.

[TenthAmendmentChampion]

There’s a lot of land up by Alturas, and lots of it is nowhere near a school.

[BBell]

20 something years ago when I was a $hit head juvenile delinquent I knew a kid who was convicted for some kind of sex crime and sent to a 30 day state evaluation on his character. His crime was that he grabbed some girls breast on a dare from his friends. The crime occurred in a crowded venue and was clearly meant to be an attention getter, not a sex crime. He was like 14 or 15. Is he a sex offender?

[Thud]

Parolees can't leave the counties they are released in without the permission of their parole officer. It is a big hairy bureaucratic deal for a parolee to formally change his county of residence.

That is why paroled sex offenders in the tiny "City and County of San Francisco", all of four miles across, can't officially reside there yet can't move to Alturas, i.e., they violate their parole by breathing. And that's why this law is both bug-f**k nuts and federally unconstitutional.

[Thud]

Only if he is charged and convicted of a criminal sex offense. That is within the prosecutor’s discretion.

[Mr. Jeeves]

It's actually almost eight miles across (and the same north/south)...but your point is still valid. ;)

But hey, passing the law let a bunch of politicans hook their thumbs in their suspenders and brag to their constituents about how they were "tough on crime", so it served its real purpose...

[TenthAmendmentChampion]

I didn’t know that. Thanks for clarifying. Couldn’t they request to move, though?

[My Favorite Headache]

I have noticed a lot of these court rulings have put these sex offenders in Siberia..literally. The rules almost make them move out of the country.