Posts claim California has approved "pro-pedophilia" legislation. The legislation instead eliminates an inequality in sex offender registration rules.
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Legislation intended to improve sex offender database, end discrimination
Rather than enabling pedophilia, as the posts suggest, advocates say SB-145 will improve the sex offender registry.
That's why it had the support of the California Coalition Against Sexual Assault, the California Police Chiefs Association, the California Attorneys for Criminal Justice, the Crime Victims Action Alliance and Children Now, among others.
"The sex offender registry being a tool for crime solving in the future is only effective if the people on it are actually a threat to or a danger to their community," Garrett-Pate said.
"It strengthens the registry by making sure that it's usable because the people on it are actually people who are a threat to society, not a high school student who made a mistake," he added.