Interviewing a convicted sex offender is like interviewing anybody–except for the ankle monitoring bracelets, and the stories, and the sex crimes

PHOTO by DANIEL DE BOOM
The scariest part of trying to interview a convicted sex offender? The possibility–however remote–that you yourself could be assaulted. Sex offenders have a high rate of recidivism–a word which, ironically, [...]

At its meeting last night, the Long Beach City Council unanimously approved a new ordinance governing where convicted sex offenders may and may not live–meaning that, under the new rules, all but one of the 10 convicted sex offenders living in that hotly-debated Alamitos Beach apartment complex will have to hit the road.
The new law [...]

Long Beach City Council revisits the issue tomorrow
The public relations people for the Dr. Phil TV show weren’t lying when they said, rather vaguely, that if they were producing a segment on the Alamitos Beach sex offenders, it might run some time in March.
It aired Friday–meaning that, by now, you’ve missed it. (I [...]

This Week: Dean Singleton, Echo Chambers and Sex Offenders
“The prosecution wants a win, the public defender wants an easy out, and the judge wants a clear calendar without the hassles of trial.”
Phil on “IT’S A DELICATE SITUATION: PART II”
“I can believe Dean loves newspapers…..in the same way that a pimp loves his whores.”
W3 on “CITY [...]

Last night’s Long Beach City Council meeting probably had more reporters per square inch than any council meeting since the Queen Mary came to town in ‘67 (but feel free to substitute your own significant local event here).
As near as I can tell, Cal State Long Beach’s Daily 49er was actually the first paper to [...]

Hopefully not to my neighborhood. Alamitos Beach residents feel the same way.
Took a trip to Illinois to visit the in-laws recently. My father-in-law, noodling around on his computer, decided that it would be interesting to see how many residents of his upscale retirement community were on the Megan’s Law watch list. A [...]