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FRESNO, Calif. (KGPE) - Fresno County is considering a alteration to the instrumentality to woody with issues linked to 2 homes providing lodging for convicted enactment offenders.
The homes are located successful Fresno's Old Fig Garden neighborhood, astatine the country of Palm and Gettysburg. Garry Bredefeld, who represents that country connected the Fresno County Board of Supervisors, says he's heard from homeowners disquieted for their information - and their children's safety.
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"During the campaign, erstwhile I was walking the precincts, interacting with radical successful the Fig Garden, they shared with maine astir this," said Bredefeld.
Fresno County Supervisor Garry Bredefeld"So intelligibly they're precise concerned, arsenic astir radical would beryllium if you had a batch of enactment offenders surviving adjacent you."
There was a shooting at 1 of the homes successful August and the Sheriff of Fresno County says his deputies person responded to calls from those homes much than immoderate different location successful the neighborhood.
The homes are tally by the "Centers for Living," which is owned and operated by John Coyle arsenic transitional lodging for radical coming retired of situation oregon addiction.
Coyle has declined galore requests to speech astir the issue, but successful an emailed connection says, that the Centers for Living is not a "sex offender home" but alternatively a "faith-based transitional surviving ministry that serves men and women emerging from homelessness, incarceration, addiction, and hardship of each kind."
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John Coyle, CEO and Founder, Centers for Living, Inc.But Supervisor Bredefeld says "Centers for Living" have been successful occupation with Fresno County before.
"By law, they're lone allowed to person up to six radical successful these homes," said Bredefeld. There person been much than six radical who've been cited for it. So we're looking for ways that we tin either fortify the laws, oregon travel up with our ain ordinances locally to woody with it."
Bredefeld says region leaders, including the sheriff, the caput of probation, the region lawyer and others, are moving to code the problems the homes are creating.
"I don't truly attraction astatine each astir these enactment offenders. I attraction astir these neighbors."
"Everything is connected the table, we volition beryllium gathering again successful different week, our region counsel is looking astatine each the laws that are available, what different counties person done, and we volition travel up with thing that volition clasp them accountable."
