Sex offenders say city's Halloween ban violates their civil rights

Sex offenders say city's Halloween ban violates their civil rights

Published October 04, 2012
FoxNews.com
A group of sex offenders is fighting back against a California city ordinance that bans them from opening their doors to children on Halloween, with their attorney comparing the ban to the discrimination faced by the Jews during Nazi Germany.
The Ventura County Star reports the federal lawsuit was filed Friday on behalf of five registered sex offenders, three of their spouses and two of their children. It alleges the ordinance passed by the city of Simi Valley violates the First and 14th Amendments because it "suppresses and unduly chills protected speech and expression."
The ordinance requires the offenders to post signs on their front doors saying, "No candy or treats at this residence." It also bars them from displaying Halloween decorations or having exterior lighting on their property from 5 p.m. to midnight on Oct. 31.
Attorney Janice Bellucci tells The Los Angeles Times she plans to ask the judge for an injunction to keep the city from enforcing its new law this Halloween. Bellucci, who heads an advocacy group called California Reform Our Sex Offender Laws, says her clients were particularly upset by the requirement to have a sign in the front yard.


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Well...it's Cali..they'll get their wish...The parents in that neighborhood should look up in the sex offender registry, get their addresses and NOT go there so that Chester the Molester can't get his jollys looking at little boys dressed as Peter Pan...

comparing the holocost to a bunch of kiddie touchers is just stupid.

the Jewish peple were persecuted for thier relgion, not f**king little kids !

This is why victims families should be allowed to TCB. Not long before diddlers are considered a "protected", class.

That works for me. Only in Cali would a sex offender have the nerve to pull this stuff.

AND they'll probably seek "hate crimes" if their homes get egged ot tp'ed.
If these kids want safe California Halloween fun they should just Trick or Treat at the Neverland Ranch

Since when is it a civil right to pass out candy to kids??? Give me a break.

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I agree that they shouldn't be forced to put out signs and not participate.

They should be locked up for life and they wouldn't have to worry about being "discriminated" against.

As if the story wasn't appalling enough, their lawyers compare them to the millions of Jewish people who were persecuted for committing absolutely no crime? SMH

Janice Bellucci.... Friend of the pedophile.

Ding ding ding, we have a Winner...THIS all dam day! Move them to SanfranSICKO where they will be greeted with open arms.

Ahh now I see the problem, a transsexual fights to protect the pedophile

The way I see it we need to institute a Lex Luthor-like Superman the Movie plan to detonate a bomb on the San Andreas fault and drop California into the ocean:

Ms. Bellucci is a attorney in California and a State organizer for RSOL. After years supporting the registry, a talk with her plumber changed her prospective,

Apparently she failed critical thinking course somewhere along the way. There is no justification for supporting this registry and the ban. If they object that strenuously send them back to prison in the gen pop, the other inmates can explain it to them