California Court of Appeal

Judgment for plaintiffs based on holdings that: 1) Department of Social Services could not classify "occupied burglary" as a non-exemptible offense; 2) DSS's method of notifying persons it concludes have been convicted of non-exemptible offenses violates constitutional due process guarantees; and 3) DSS's policy of treating a second degree robbery conviction as a non-exemptible offense violates equal protection, are affirmed as occupied burglary is not a crime against an individual, treating a second degree robbery conviction as a non-exemptible offense cannot withstand even relaxed equal protection review, and DSS nust provide additional information to persons it determines have been convicted of a non-exemptible offense.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/22/2006
• Published 06/22/2006

Judges

• McGUINESS, P.J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Teresa Stinson and Douglas M. Press, Supervising Deputy Attorneys General, Susan Joyce King, Deputy Attorney General for Defendants and Appellants., The Social JusticeLaw Project and Peter Sheehan for Plaintiffs and Respondents.