A small victory for advocates of reforming sex offender laws may
be short lived.
The California Court of Appeal
ruled on Jan. 10 that an Orange County ordinance banning sex
offenders from parks and beaches is unlawful, yet the Orange County
DA Tony Rackauckas will not concede. He has decided to appeal
the decision of the California Court of Appeal to the California
Supreme Court. The state Surpreme Court should decide within 90
days whether or not to take the case.
“It is foolish for the Office of the Orange County District
Attorney to request further review of the county ordinance,” Janice
Bellucci, president of California Reform Sex Offender
Laws, said in a press release Tuesday. “After losing two court
battles, this is a waste of taxpayer funding which could be better
spent on addressing methods that increase public safety rather than
provide the public with a false sense of security.”
This ordinance is one of the harshest in the state for sex
offenders, and Bellucci argues that this kind of ban, like most sex
offender laws, is ineffective and does not provide the protection
it suggests.
ReasonTV reported on this ban when it was first enacted in 2011.
Watch below to find out more about the ban and “How Sex Offender
Registries Fail Us”:
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