Laws in Orange County and Irvine barring sex offenders from entering parks without permission are void under state law, an appeals court ruled Friday, according to the O.C. Register.
The decision by the 4th District Court of Appeal reverses the conviction of Hugo Godinez, a registered sex offender who was convicted of a misdemeanor for violating the county ordinance after he went to a company picnic at Mile Square Regional Park in Fountain Valley in 2011. Godinez had been convicted of misdemeanor sexual battery in 2010, according to the L.A. Times.
“Godinez argues state law preempts the county ordinance and therefore his conviction is void. We agree,” the panel wrote, adding that the state Legislature has already enacted a “comprehensive statutory scheme regulating the daily life of sex offenders.”
In another case, the same judges let stand a trial court ruling dismissing a charge against Jean-Pierre Nguyen, arrested while playing tennis at Irvine’s Citrus Glen Park in September 2012.
“We’re going to review our options requesting the Supreme Court of California to review this case,” said Susan Kang Schroeder, the chief of staff for Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas, according to the Aliso Viejo Patch.
There’s more beyond the surface here. Most people don’t know how easy it is to get put on the Sex Offender Registry. There has been children on the sex offender registry as young as 9 years old. Punitive measures are added Ex-post facto at the whim of any politician looking to get elected (like that of the DA). Making the registrant their new whipping boy for votes. What about the rights of the registrant’s child? Don’t they have a right to be with their parent? These laws break more than constitutional law and the God given right (spiritual law) of a parent to be with their child but it also breaks natural law. Even a mother bear is allowed to be with her cubs, but for a registrant and their child these laws dare to break those fundamental God given rights. Really? Where are we in pre-1945 Germany? Oh, about the sheriff giving out passes for registrants to go to parks. Why would a law enforcement agency give out passes for people to break the law? Sometimes Kids get hurt in parks and beaches. Whether by falling from a tree, drowning or choking on a hot-dog. It seems okay to violate the registrant child’s safety by disallowing their first line of defense (their parents) to be there. Ladies and gentlemen these kind of laws are not for freedom but tyranny. The numbers and facts don’t justify these fear based draconian laws. TRUTH