The California state social services agency is moving to shut down nine homes used for child day care and foster care after an audit found registered sex offenders living there, in violation of state law.
The revelation came after state auditors compared the addresses of 75,000 licensed facilities, including foster family homes and in-home day care centers, with the state’s database of registered sex offenders.
California Department of Social Services Director John Wagner said the audit found that the addresses of 49 sex offenders matched those of 46 child care facilities.
There are so many overlapping questions, it really is difficult to decide where to start. Especially when the whole Sex Offender/Protect The Children do-si-dos is central.
Push comes to shove, though – some of these licensed care facilities seem to have no clue about requirements. Who’s in charge of due diligence and enforcement?
What this boils down to is simple. There are no brownie points given for preventing sex offenders from running (or living at) daycare centers. But once the offenses have been committed…. Hooray for California officials for putting a stop to it. Ignoring that they should have had some kind of approval procedure in place, like they do for buying a gun. But apparently, it never occured to them before, to check for this. And it certianly didn’t require any “leg work”. Just office chair research. I’m thinking that no agents ever visited these places and asked, “who’s this creepy guy hanging around here?” Ah, your tax dollar not at work. Few if any investigators, for new laws that amount to political promises, if they’re rarely inforced.
#29, bobbo,
… what is so horribly wrong that ex-cons should be prohibited from associating with kiddie facilities?
Because everyone is lumped in together. Whether they received a traffic ticket or killed someone, there has to be a difference. Yes, there are those who should not be with children. They will make up a small minority of all those now prohibited.
So someone did a crime, or got caught. He is released and goes home. Only he can’t associate with his fiance because she has children from a previous relationship. He can’t stay at his brother’s house because of the nieces and nephews. Hey, what the phuk ??? The guy did his time !!!
What if his wife wants to run a day care from her home? Well, geeze, that means the husband can’t live there. There is no evidence the husband is a danger to the children. Just a preemptive attack.
Then there is the unevenness of the sentences. If you are white you will have a very good chance of being diverted into a program and end up with no record. If you are black or hispanic you will more likely end up behind bars.
Lumping everyone together has always been wrong. We don’t blame every American because Bush is an asshole. We don’t blame every white because of the KKK. We don’t blame every black for the actions of your sister’s husband.
#2–Catshit==”everyone” is not being lumped together. Ex con is different from never charged which is different from never convicted which is different from never did jail time and so on.
Of the many laws I can think of that are unfair and too broad, I put this one at the bottom of the list.
Arguing for a change in this law is fine==go ahead. I’m all for it. Time, Money, Attention, Energy===keep your powder dry.
Bobbo,
Ex con is different from never charged which is different from never convicted which is different from never did jail time and so on.
Which is exactly what has been pointed out by several people. Yet you are stubbornly sticking to this concept that ALL ex-cons are a danger to children. They aren’t. The difference in all your examples is getting caught, how the cop treats it, how the prosecutor handles it, but most of all, the color of the person’s skin.
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