California Court of Appeal

Judgment sustaining defendant's demurrer to a misdemeanor complaint that charged him with violating a local ordinance that prohibits registered sex offenders from entering city parks and recreational facilities without written permission from the city's police chief is affirmed, where: 1) the state statutory scheme imposing restrictions on a sex offender's daily life fully occupies the field and therefore preempts the city's efforts to restrict sex offenders from visiting city parks and recreational facilities; and 2) state law preempts the ordinance's requirement that sex offenders obtain written permission from the city's police chief before entering a city park and recreational facility.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/13/2014
• Published 01/13/2014

Judges

• ARONSON

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel