I agree with the court's decision. I for one don't want to have my family or children's schools and play areas near where a sex offender lives. If the sex offenders are upset about the restrictions, tough. That's the price they pay for having committed those horrible crimes.

There are sex offenders living very close to schools in Pleasanton, and the police says there is nothing they can do, even if those sex offenders choose to walk around the schools during dismissal times.

It is not fair that the rights of the sex offenders are considered more important than the safety of the children.

If you're concerned about the safety of your children, then pick your children up after school.

If you want to know who the sex offenders are, you can see a pic of them online.

anyone else concerned that cholo knows so much about S.O.'s? Not just defending them, in favor of kids safety, but knowing that their pictures are posted onlone......scary.

If you're concerned about the safety of your children, then pick your children up after school.

If you want to know who the sex offenders are, you can see a pic of them online.

All of the sex offender's who live in Pleasanton and in the surrounding cities are listed under Megan's Law, Office of the State Attorney General, CA. There are photograph of the perps as well as their current addresses. Pleasanton is surrounded with sex offenders. Know who they are and where they live to protect your children.

There are multiple ways to protect your families and the best way to do it is to stay informed and in contact with PPD. The PPD will take any calls re: sexual predators seriously.

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Its true that some sex offenders should be monitored to ensure that they do not reoffend, and thus victimize another child. But not all sex offenders are "child molesters". The powers that be do not do enough to inform the public of the differences in convictions that put someone in the sex offender category. I'm a registered sex offender. I never touched a child, or came in contact with one. I was convicted for posessing child pornography. These images were found on the internet. (www.easynews.com, still there today!)I don't deserve a life sentence!

Want to protect your kids? Then read and heed the study done by the U.S. Department of Justice published in 1994. THIS is scary! It seems that kids are more at risk of molestation in their OWN HOME! How come we never hear about THIS and always hear about the so-called "stranger danger"?????

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In this state you can be put on the sex offender registry for urinating outside (in public). Yes, it IS the law. Public indecency, look it up! KNOW the law!

As a retired Police Officer and one who worked with these sex offender laws and sex offenders my take on this is this. Sex Offender Regestrys (SOR) do NOT protect your childern you must do that on your own. This state and others have added so many criminals to the SOR that it is not working any more. Given that the US Dept of Justice study showed that over 95% of those arrested for sexual assualts have never been arrested for any crime before. That over 85% of those arrested for sexual assault were well known and trusted by the victim with over 50% of them being a family member. And that in REAL numbers those who are released from prison for non sexual crimes go no to commit in real numbers more sexual offenses then do released sex offenders. So why all of these sex offender laws? One reason so those in office can make the public think they are doing something to protect them. But the real reason those in office are passing all these SO laws is so they can get votes when it comes time to be re-elected.

TimPA, thank you for a fact filled post. The statistics you quote are all able to be found by researching studies and reports done by the U.S. Department of Justice. Sacramento (and especially George Runner) is going to ride whatever horse they can find to get re-elected, this is just the most obvious example.

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