Wilmington Becomes Safe Haven For Sex Offenders
WILMINGTON (CBS) — Convicted sex offenders now face severe restrictions on where they can live, which is forcing them to communities like Wilmington. Detective Diane Webb with the Los Angeles Police...
View ArticlePolice Chief Tells Sex Offenders To Avoid Trick-Or-Treaters
MURRIETA (AP) — Murrieta police Chief Mark Wright is warning registered child sex offenders to avoid kids trick-or-treating on Halloween. Wright has mailed letters to the 43 residents of the Riverside...
View ArticleLA County Judge Blocks Jessica’s Law
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A judge has temporarily blocked enforcement of a law restricting how close sex offenders can live to parks and schools in Los Angeles County. Superior Court Judge Peter Espinoza...
View ArticleSex Offenders Found Living In Local Elderly Care Facilities
By David Goldstein LOS ANGELES (CBS) — No one expects a sex offender to be living in a nursing home but that is what we uncovered — 100 sex offenders living in local facilities for the elderly....
View ArticleOC Board Eyes Ban On Sex Offenders At Playgrounds, Beaches
SANTA ANA (CBS) — Officials in Orange County say they will consider creating a child safety zone to protect kids from sexual predators. The proposed ordinance from the Board of Supervisors would it a...
View ArticleCalif. Laws Target Career Criminals, Sex Offenders
LOS ANGELES (AP) — California has targeted career criminals, gang members and sex offenders with lengthy prison terms under laws and initiatives dating to the mid-1990s. In recent years, concerns over...
View ArticleSex Offenders In Orange County Will Need Permission To Go To Beaches, Parks
SANTA ANA (AP) — Beginning next month, registered sex offenders will no longer be allowed in some Orange County beaches, parks and harbors without prior approval from the county. The Board of...
View ArticleSeveral Sex Offenders Nabbed For Parole Violations At Motel In Wilmington
WILMINGTON (AP) — Los Angeles police and FBI agents have arrested eight people in a raid at a Wilmington motel where convicted child molesters and registered sex offenders lived. LAPD Det. Patricia...
View ArticleLos Alamitos Bans Sex Offenders In Parks
LOS ALAMITOS (AP) — Los Alamitos has become the latest Orange County city to enact an ordinance that keeps registered sex offenders out of parks and playgrounds where children gather. The Los Alamitos...
View ArticleTeacher Accused Of Sex With Teen Could Face 50 Years
MURRIETA (CBS) — A Temecula middle school teacher accused of carrying on a year-long sexual relationship with a teenage girl is slated to be arraigned Tuesday on multiple felony charges. James Seishin...
View ArticleCypress Law Will Allow Sex Offenders To Only Live Near Cemetery
CYPRESS (CBS) — Sex offenders looking to move into Cypress will now have a hard time finding housing. The Cypress City Council approved a tough new law Monday night, prohibiting sex offenders from...
View Article3 Online Dating Sites Agree To Screen For Predators
LOS ANGELES (CBS) — Three online dating services have agreed to screen for sex offenders and take other measures to protect their members after a Southern California woman was assaulted on a date. The...
View ArticleSex Offenders Sue Simi Valley Over New Halloween Law
SIMI VALLEY (CBSLA.com) — An attorney representing five registered sex offenders, three of their wives and two of their children have sued the city of Simi Valley over a new law banning Halloween...
View ArticleAP: More Sex Offenders Become Fugitives Under Brown’s New Law
SACRAMENTO (AP) — The number of paroled sex offenders who are fugitives in California is 15 percent higher today than before Gov. Jerry Brown’s sweeping law enforcement realignment law took effect 17...
View ArticleMan Sentenced To One Year After Exposing Himself To Teenage Girls
SANTA ANA (CBSLA.com) — A Costa Mesa man will spend a year behind bars after pleading guilty to exposing himself to up to 10 high school girls throughout the Santa Ana area. Alfredo Landaverde, 48,...
View Article21 Sex Offenders Arrested During 3-Week Sweep
DOWNEY (CBSLA.com) — Twenty-one felons with histories of sexual offense were arrested throughout a three-week period in which an operation — being called the biggest of it’s kind in Los Angeles this...
View ArticleReport: Quarter Of GPS Devices Used To Track LA County Felons Don’t Work
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — An investigative report in the LA Times Sunday revealed that a quarter of all GPS devices used to track convicted criminals in LA County do not work. The Times obtained a...
View Article57 Convicted Sex Offenders Arrested In Southland ICE Operation
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers arrested 57 foreign nationals with prior convictions for sex offenses during a three-day operation targeting criminal...
View ArticleMen Wearing GPS Devices Indicted In Connection With 3 Killings
SANTA ANA (AP) — Two sex offenders were indicted Thursday after authorities said they raped and killed four women while the men wore GPS tracking monitors. Franc Cano, 28, and Steven Dean Gordon, 45,...
View ArticleState Supreme Court: Residency Restriction Of Jessica’s Law Violates Sex...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California’s Supreme Court ruled Monday state corrections officials cannot prohibit all registered sex offenders from living within 2,000 feet of a school or park as required by a...
View ArticleCalifornia Struggles With Residency Rules For Sex Offenders
LOS ANGELES (CBS/AP) — California cities and counties are grappling with residency rules involving paroled sex offenders. The reconsideration was promoted when the California Supreme Court struck down...
View ArticleOnly On 2: ‘Operation Boo’ Goes Door-To-Door On Halloween To Keep Kids Safe...
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — Officials call it “Operation Boo.” State agencies work at keeping kids safe on Halloween night as they go door-to-door in search of candy. Agencies are keeping a watchful...
View Article‘Pokémon Go’ Sends Gamers To Home Of Sex Offenders
SAN LUIS OBISPO (AP) — The addictive cellphone game “Pokémon Go” has led people to unlikely places to collect digital monsters — including the gates of a Central California ranch that houses alcoholics...
View ArticleParents Outraged To Find Out Bill Passed In 2014 Allows Sex Offenders On...
FONTANA (CBSLA.com) — Parents in Fontana met Wednesday to discuss a 2014 bill they didn’t know allowed sex offenders to be on school campuses if school principals gave their permission. Parents told...
View ArticlePassport Mark For Sex Offenders Challenged Again In CA
SACRAMENTO (AP) — A group representing sex offenders is trying again to block a law that requires a marker to be placed in the passports of people convicted of sex offenses against children. Attorney...
View ArticleCalifornia To Appeal Ruling On Earlier Sex Offender Parole
SACRAMENTO (AP) — Gov. Jerry Brown will appeal a judge’s ruling that California must consider earlier parole for potentially thousands of sex offenders, such as those convicted of raping an unconscious...
View ArticleSex Offenders Legally Working In Carnival Business
LOS ANGELES – Inside the carnival business we found registered sex offenders and there is nothing police can do about it. Street festivals are places for kids to have fun, but how do you know who is...
View ArticleCalif. Site Alerts Public When Sex Offenders Flee
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California’s corrections department has created a website to warn the public when paroled sex offenders flee from supervision. The website unveiled Tuesday lets the public...
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