Jessica’s Law

The California Organization of Police and Sheriffs (COPS) announced their support for Jessica’s Law which will be on the November General Election ballot.

COPS Executive Director Monty Holden announced, “Our kids deserve the protection of the toughest sex offender punishment and control reform law in the nation. California has currently 63,000 registered sex offenders. One in every four sex offenders in California are currently missing. How can we protect our children if we don’t even know where the sex offenders are? The best way to keep sex offenders from harming our children is to either incarcerate them or actively monitor their whereabouts through GPS tracking. Jessica’s Law will help track these dangerous and violent sexual predators.”

Jessica’s Law is named in memory of nine-year-old Jessica Lunsford, who was taken from her home in Homosassa, Florida, on February 23, 2005, and found brutally murdered three weeks later. A registered sex offender with an extensive criminal history and outstanding warrants for probation violations confessed to abducting, raping, and burying Jessica alive only 150 yards from the home where she had lived with her father and grandparents. Jessica’s Law will:

	Ensure that all child molesters who molest children under the age of 14 are put into a prison with a mandatory minimum sentence of 15 years or 25 years to life. Closes all loopholes in California’s "one-strike" laws.
	Eliminate all "good-time" credits for sex offenders ensuring that these sex offenders are required to serve their entire sentence and will not be released for good behavior.
	Electronically monitor convicted sex offenders for life, if they are ever released from prison, through GPS tracking.
	Create a 2,000 foot "predator-free" zone around schools, parks and playgrounds to prevent sex offenders from living where our children learn and play.

Holden added, “The Sacramento Bee’s explosive series highlighted how broke our current system has become. Let’s not make our children pay for our government’s inability to act. Let’s pray none of these sexual predator monsters harm more of our children before this law is passed in November.”

COPS represents the interests of over 100,000 peace officers and 1,000,000 citizen members in California.

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Jessica's Law COPS Executive Director Monty Holden discussed the importance of Jessica's Law and urges citizens to sign COPS petition on Jessica's Law.