Proposed Fresno County ordinance could limit amount of sex offenders in a home

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Fresno County could ace down connected what critics telephone an oversaturation of enactment offenders with a recently projected ordinance.

Supervisors Garry Bredefeld and Brian Pacheco announced the measurement connected Monday. It would bounds the fig of enactment offenders and beds successful a single-family location to six, enforcing existent authorities law.

"The archetypal usurpation volition transportation a $10,000 good and continued violations volition scope $20,000, up to $50,000 per violation," Bredefeld explained.

Bredefeld says 1 location connected Gettysburg and Palm avenues is causing problems for Old Fig Garden residents, who are lodging aggregate enactment offenders.

The location operates nether Centers for Living, a transitional lodging non-profit.

The region says close adjacent doorway is different Centers for Living house, creating a bigger enactment offender colonisation successful that country and frustrating residents.

"All our properties are going to beryllium less," Old Fig Garden nonmigratory George Aguilar said. "Who wants to unrecorded determination with these guys moving astir similar that?"

"At nighttime you perceive each sorts of things going connected and it has been traced backmost to these residences," Old Fig Garden resident, Beverly Raine, said.

Back successful August, successful that aforesaid neighborhood, investigators accidental Jennifer Cedano changeable and injured a 64-year-old bystander.

"The pistillate who was the fishy believed that an idiosyncratic who was determination was progressive successful a molestation of a comparative of hers," Fresno County Sheriff John Zanoni said.

The incidental alarmed residents.

"What's going connected present successful the vicinity that we thought was a truly peaceful spot to live," Aguilar stated. "It's similar we're being invaded."

Over adjacent Kerman, Pacheco says determination are 2 neighboring Centers for Living homes that comply with authorities law, but helium claims they're operating done a loophole.

"If these 2 were connected the aforesaid parcel, it would beryllium an overconcentration," Pacheco explained. "I americium told by the sheriff's bureau that determination are 11 registered enactment offenders successful these 2 homes: 6 successful 1 and 5 successful the other."

Under the region ordinance, violators could besides look jailhouse clip connected apical of the tens of thousands of dollars successful fines.

If the ordinance is passed connected Tuesday, it volition spell into effect 30 days later.

Action News reached retired to the CEO of Centers for Living for comment. He sent the pursuing statement:

"For 7 years, we person operated successful Fresno County, providing faith-based lodging for much than 1,200 adults without a azygous occupancy oregon parole-related violation, and the projected ordinance simply duplicates regulations already enforced by Fresno County Parole, with whom we stay afloat compliant. It is unfortunate that newer, little experienced elected officials publically described our ministry inaccurately, due to the fact that erstwhile statements made successful authorization are not grounded successful fact, fearfulness fills the spread and nationalist information is not served. Our structured homes supply curfews, accountability, and support-offering stableness for individuals who mightiness different beryllium stateless oregon unsupervised and this exemplary has produced immoderate of the lowest recidivism outcomes successful Fresno County's transitional lodging history."

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