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Criminal

Oct. 10, 2017

Sex crime law sets up 3-tier system Some convicts would no longer be registered for life

In the first significant change to California’s sex offender registry since 1947, Gov. Jerry Brown signed a law that revamps a one-size-fits-all lifetime registry into a three-tiered system that distinguishes between low, middle and high-level offenders.

The new law, SB 384, was signed Friday and goes into effect Jan. 1, 2021. It provides that criminals in the first tier now will have an opportunity to petition for removal from the ...

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