Sex offenders found at 39 California foster homes

SF Gate ^ | 10/27/11 | Marisa Lagos

[Libloather]

Sex offenders found at 39 California foster homes
Marisa Lagos, Chronicle Staff Writer
Thursday, October 27, 2011

Lax state oversight has resulted in sex offenders living, working or being present in at least 39 California homes where foster children are also authorized to live, including several in the Bay Area, a state audit released Thursday concluded.

The audit compared the addresses of registered sex offenders with the addresses of licensed facilities and homes where foster children were placed, and found more than 1,000 instances where the addresses matched. When state and county officials investigated those addresses, they found 39 instances where sex offenders were affiliated with the foster facilities - including several in Mountain View and one in Vallejo.

According the audit, those affiliations included a sex offender owning a foster property, a sex offender's spouse running a facility and a sex offender picking up mail at a foster facility. It also included eight cases where registered sex offenders were "associated" with foster homes where no children were actually living at the time.

[NavyCanDo]

“Have you reported this to the State or County Department responsible for warehousing the children? Health Dept or Child Protective”

All of the above. Even sent a photo of the little boy playing on the roof. Not sure if the State is taking any action. They were nice kids when they were younger, but now as they grow without adult supervision trouble is a bruing.

[sodpoodle]

Kudos - You are a FReeper - I didn’t need to ask;)

We complain about Government intrusion, mismanagement, waste, fraud & abuse. Time to add another one - gross negligence.

thx for your efforts ncd

[TheOldLady]

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[brytlea]

If our courts would just get bad people off the street, make them do hard time, make prison something no one wanted to repeat etc, we could do away with a lot of this stuff. And of course let people have the means to defend their own turf.