Blanket Ban on Megan's Law Offender Parents May Not Be Proper
By Michelle Ball, California Education Attorney for Students since 1995 Tonight (January 13, 2011), a small school district located in northern California, will vote whether to continue a policy which provides a flat ban against individuals, including parents , listed on the Megan's Law database as sex offenders, from coming onto their campuses. I have not been able to access the current policy on line, but in an article in the Sacramento Bee today: http://www.sacbee.com/2011/01/13/3320506/placer-hills-schools-to-reconsider.html#disqus_thread , the policy is described as flatly denying access to anyone listed on the Megan's Law database. The article also outlines that policies in other districts are not so prohibitive and that the approach to such matters varies district to district. If true that any parents listed on the Megan's Law website are banned as a group, the district in question has taken a unique stand which likely infringes on parents rights to visit its ca...