Alta residents continue pushback as court reconsiders sexually violent predator placement
Alta residents continue to voice strong opposition, as legal concerns prompt the court to re-evaluate the proposed site.
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Alta residents continue to voice strong opposition, as legal concerns prompt the court to re-evaluate the proposed site.
Growing concern and frustration are spreading through a small town in Northern California's Placer County after residents learned a sexually violent predator could soon be placed in their neighborhood.
William Stephenson has been up for release for more than two years now, but Placer County can't find a place for him to live and they're expanding their search to include Sacramento County.
A Stanislaus County Superior Court judge granted a motion to prohibit the placement of two sexually violent predators at a residence in the county, prosecutors said Wednesday.
We still don't know where a sexually violent predator will be released in Placer County. The court held yet nother status hearing Monday for William Stevenson's release.
A Placer County judge is the latest to order "transient release" for a "Sexually Violent Predator" due to lack of housing. CBS News Sacramento has identified a spike in the number of sexually violent predators cleared for release into California communities. Now lawmakers are taking action.
According to state data, there's an increasing number of sexually violent predators living in the community on conditional release, which is leading to increasing concerns and an increasing cost to taxpayers.
