There’s been a lot of ink spilled about the fact that a registered sex offender contributed money to Democratic gubernatorial candidate Gary King’s campaign. But little has been said about the fact that the contributions from the sex-offender were three times the legal limit of what a donor can give during an election year. This week, the Santa Fe New Mexican published a top-of-the fold, front-page story about the fact that, “King has received more than $35,000 in campaign contributions from an address in the U.S. Virgin Islands that also is listed…
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Civil rights activist group sues South Pasadena over ‘arbitrary and discriminatory’ sex offender ordinance
SOUTH PASADENA >> A civil rights activist group filed a lawsuit against South Pasadena this week, alleging the city’s sex offender ordinance strips “a socially outcast minority” of their First, Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment rights. Attorney Janice Bellucci, president of the California Reform Sex Offender Laws organization, called South Pasadena’s Title 20E-1 through 20E-10 municipal code arbitrary and discriminatory. The regulation was passed in 2009. Full Article Also see: South Pasadena Ordinance Challenged in Federal Court South Pasadena agrees not to enforce city’s presence restrictions
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