Should Megan’s Law Have More Bite?

Autor BeSafeScreening | 02.27.2008 | Category Megan's Law

B & T Tenant and Employment Screening, Bakersfield California, 2/27/08. In 2005, Nicole Parra introduced AB 438 to try and insure apartment owners the right to deny based on information gathered through the Megan’s Law web site. This bill was voted down by our legislaters. Why is that? We as a society need to do “the right thing” and protect our children from sexuial predators. I urge all Californian’s to contact your State and local politicians to re-introduce a new bill granting property owners the option of denying based on information gathered from the Megan’s Law website. According to Scott Ciment, who works for California Attorneys for Criminal Justice one of the few groups protecting the rights of sex offenders, “the problem saying that we’re going to allow landlords to not rent to somebody who has to register is that it’s going to be pretty difficult to find a place to live.” Oh darn! So let’s weigh the two options. On one hand we have sex offenders having trouble finding a place to live and on the other we have convicted sex offenders living next door to unknowing families and children. That is like waving a glass of alcohol to an alcoholic. Eventually they are going top fall off the wagon. I hope they don’t fall off the wagon with someone you are close to!