I think that was exactly the thought processes involved in bringing this legislation to fruition. That's the idea behind it - make it difficult for the predators to settle in the community.
Lest you think that's a bad, bad thing to do for someone who has "paid his debt to society", just check the rate of recidivism for these people, and the desired outcome of what the law envisaged becomes apparent.
At least the legislature is making an effort to protect our kids. That appears to be a boast the judicial system cannot make at this time.
CA....
Not just the community, but the state. Even rural areas have bus stops within a thousand feet of most residences. ...Or they simply don't have a bus service.
It's a "cute" way of exile without saying so.
I'm in agreement about the recidivism, and frankly think that the kinds of sex offenders that most think of (especially the monster in this article) should never exit a prison at above room temperature. ...But if you let people out of prison, you can't consider it a crime for them to be *anywhere* outside of prison. In California theres a big thing going on because none of some parolees in some county can find places to live within the legal requirements so they're being housed in trailers on prison grounds - and the local popluace is complaining about that as well.
It's one thing to say that they can't live in particularly opportunistic locations, like directly adjacent to an elementary school, but quite another to say they are no longer in prison but can only live in a tree on a property at least a quarter mile from all roadways, because a bus stop might be established at any point on said road.
This is essentially the same stunt that the anti-gun people did with the law prohibiting firearm posession within some ridiculously large distance of a school.