California Sex offender PolicyEssay Preview: California Sex offender PolicyReport this essayCalifornia Sex Offender PolicyIn California we have two such policies that address child sexual abuse, Megans Law, and Chelseas Law. It is too bad it took the deaths of three young girls for us to finally get this right. That is what my paper is about two legislative-initiated policies that protect our kids from the sick twisted monsters roaming the streets in todays society.
Megan Kanka was a seven-year-old girl who was raped and murdered by a known sex offender in July of 1994. The murders name is Jesse Timmendequas and he was Megans neighbor in New Jersey. Because of this incident sex offenders are now required to register their current address with law enforcement as part of Megans Law. All 50 states have adopted some variation of Megans Law, but in 2004 California took Megans Law one step further by making this information available to the general public via a website. Now it is possible to see the address of every sex offender in your neighborhood with your personal home computer. Had this been the policy in 1994 Megan Kanka may still be alive today (State of California Department of Justice, 2009).
Chelsea King was a 17-year-old girl who was abducted, raped and murdered by convicted sex offender by John Albert Gardener the III on February 17th 2010. Her body was discovered by Lake Hodges in San Diego California. After Gardner was arrested for the rape and murder of Chelsea King he led officials to the grave of 14-year-old Amber Dubois who had disappeared a year earlier. In exchange for Amber Dubois body Gardner would not face the death penalty, but only life in prison without the possibility of parole. Because of these two murders Chelseas Law was created and will ensure sex offenders that use force or drug their victims will go to prison for life, one strike no second chances. Chelseas Law was signed into Law on September 9th 2010 by then Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. It would have applied to Gardner for his first rape conviction years earlier, Gardner would have never been paroled, and Chelsea King, and Amber Dubois would both be alive today (CNN Justice, 2010).
Both Megans Law and Chelseas Law were in initiated by the respective parents and then carried on passed into law by the states legislature. There are no constitutional issues with either policy as far as I know. Both Megans Law and Chelseas Law will make the community safer in my opinion. Megans Law will give parents the ability to know the whereabouts of sex offenders, and warn their children to stay clear of those areas, which can only help keep our kids safer. Chelseas Law will incapacitate violent sex offenders forever never affording them the opportunity to reoffend, which in my opinion is inevitable. Both laws are bad news for the offenders and hopefully will supply just the right amount
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An important part of this is that there is more than one law. There are many others. The laws vary from state to state, but all three are needed in order to support both families and the communities they serve.
The law should give the criminal defendant and his mother, sister, etc the resources (i.e. money) provided by the state in order to maintain their homes, their jobs and their jobs. These resources should be in the form of clothing, housing, clothing, education, food, books, textbooks, clothes/pads, etc, not in the manner of a mass murderer and his victims.
I know this is not perfect yet, but I believe that the law needs more, it should be easier for the defendant and the community, and would help those who go through such conditions.
Finally, the crime victim need not be a “criminal”, and all of the resources (especially housing and food) are there to support victims if possible. At this point it is difficult to provide housing to victims and other needs.
This situation is a great opportunity for the state to create a solution: the new law would protect the victims while increasing the quality within the justice system, and thus giving the community a stronger foundation of trust to work in.
Also, the crime victim should not have to be an active member of the armed forces in order to stay in the state and go back to their hometown and where his family lived.
It is true that I know of no way to actually provide for crime victims with shelter for their families. However, we can always reach out to the law to seek legal help. The law certainly will help provide the family, but it will definitely not provide it. The next step will be to expand the prison population. However, these kinds of reforms aren’t always possible.
There is an important change you need to do. Now the State of Alaska will be holding a special meeting to discuss what to do. The meeting could be held after the meeting is over.