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/ \ <br />_~*A ~ _ <br />~-~ <br />education Ist <br />CITY OF SANTA ANA <br />OFFICE OF THE CITY ATTORNEY <br />MEMORANDUM <br />To: Councilmember Claudia Alvarez <br />From: Joseph W. Fletcher, City Attorney <br />Date: March 31, 2006 <br />Re: Your letter of March 28-Child Safety Zoning Issues <br />Cc: Mayor and Councilmembers, City Manager, Police Chief <br />Thank you for the heads-up regarding your 85A item for next Monday. I am working with Pat <br />Healy to develop agenda language broad enough to permit the Council take a wide array of <br />actions on the issues you want to address. <br />Registered Offender Data <br />My Office is working with the Police Department to compile the statistics you seek regarding the <br />number of registered sex offenders in Santa Ana, particularly the high-risk offenders who likely <br />would be targets of enhanced restrictions. The Chief will be making that available to you and the <br />Council. <br />Local Child Safety Zone Legislation <br />Our preliminary research on Child Safety Zone ordinances indicates that no such legislation has <br />been adopted in Orange County. The city of National City in San Diego County adopted an <br />ordinance in late 2005 (copy attached) making illegal for any registered sex offender to be on or <br />within three hundred feet of a sc}~op~, a child-care center, youth facility, video arcade, <br />pjayground, park, or ar;}use~er~~ G~11t~T, They claim to be the first city in California to so. We <br />are continuing our research because we have indications that one or more Northern California <br />cities have adopted some form of a safe-zone ordinance and at least one of those may be in <br />litigation. Various local regulations have been enacted around the country also. I will be <br />prepared to provide more information on those measures on Monday. <br />85A-1 <br />