March 19, 2008
Long Beach passes sex offender rules
…The amended version approved Tuesday also includes new rules that no more than one sex offender may stay in a hotel, motel or inn, even in separate rooms, and that the operators of these businesses may not knowingly rent to more than one sex offender at a time. The state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation has been known to place parolees in hotel or motel rooms.
The Long Beach ordinance builds on existing state laws that prevent convicted sex offenders released from prison since November 2006 from living closer than 2,000 feet from K-12 schools or parks. Registered sex offenders on parole also aren't allowed to live together in a single- family dwelling unless they are legally related by blood, marriage or adoption…
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