Proposal would push sex offenders out of half of Calif. urban areas

Jim Miller of The (Riverside, Calif.) Press-Enterprise used geographic information system (GIS) software to study the impact of a proposal by Gov. Schwarzenegger and others to prohibit registered sex offenders from living within 2,000 feet of a park or school in California. The analysis shows that "At least half of California's urban areas would become off-limits to registered sex offenders" and they "could be confined to scattered urban islands or to lightly populated rural areas."