Placer Hills schools to reconsider policy banning sex-offender parents from campus

[The Straight Story]

Placer Hills schools to reconsider policy banning sex-offender parents from campus

(CA) A small two-school district in the Placer County foothills is scheduled to decide whether to change its policy so that parents convicted of sex crimes can get permission to be on campus.

Most schools already allow it and state law doesn't prevent such visits, but the item on today's Placer Hills Union School District board agenda has some parents hopping mad.

The Placer Hills district passed a new policy in October prohibiting anyone on the federal registry of sexual offenders, known as Megan's List, from ever coming onto its campuses.

"I'm against it," said Greg Stuck, a parent and school board member. "I'm for a school being a safe place for children."

In California, the law permits a registered sex offender on a campus if he or she has permission and has lawful business there, said Janet Neeley, deputy state attorney general. Otherwise, sex offenders aren't allowed to loiter on or near K-12 campuses, she said.

Read more: http://www.sacbee.com/2011/01/13/3320506/placer-hills-schools-to-reconsider.html#ixzz1BDUftzzM

[proud2BlibKansan]

1. I don't trust those sex offender laws in the least

I also see no reason to ban a parent from coming to school to see their own child or to talk with the child's teachers.

[beyurslf]

2. I have worked with many juveniles who are registered offenders.

In all the ones I have known, only one ever made feel like he was dangerous. All the others were just very normal and not deviant. Those lists re only good if we keep these people off and keep on the list those who are truly a threat.