By
Ross
Farrow
News-Sentinel Staff Writer
Last updated: Tuesday, Jun 27, 2006 -
06:41:37 am PDT
Following
the lead of two cities and the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors, Galt city
leaders want to restrict where sex offenders will be allowed to be within the
community.
City
Councilman Tom
Malson
requested that the proposed ordinance be placed on next week's council agenda
after hearing news that convicted sex offender Timothy Lee Boggs will soon be
released somewhere in Sacramento County, where his most recent crime was
committed.
Boggs
faces communities that don't want him in their town. The Board of Supervisors,
along with the Elk Grove and Folsom city councils, have adopted ordinances that
keep sex offenders away from schools, parks and other areas where children are
present.
"We've got to send the message," Malson
said Monday. "The other cities have sent a message to the state that we don't
like what you're doing. By not saying anything, you're saying it's
OK."
The Board of Supervisors voted unanimously on June 20 to prohibit
sex offenders from being within 300 feet of schools, day-care centers, video
arcades, playgrounds, youth sports fields and gymnasiums, skate parks, public
swimming pools, libraries and bus stops near parks and schools.
Anyone
violating the county ordinance would be guilty of a misdemeanor, fined up to
$1,000, sentenced to one year in jail, or both.
Boggs, 52, was arrested
three times for molesting young boys in the 1970s and '80s. He served seven
years of a 13-year sentence in state prison after he was sentenced in 1998 for
molesting a 9-year-old boy. Previously, he pleaded no contest to molesting a
9-year-old boy in 1984.
California Mental Health officials are searching
for a location within Sacramento County to place him. He will be transferred
next week to Sacramento County Jail from Atascadero State Hospital, where he
completed a rehabilitation program for sexual offenders.
Boggs will
appear in court in court July 14 in Sacramento. If the state Health Department
hasn't placed him in a particular community, Boggs' attorney, Kenneth Rosenfeld,
will petition the court for his unconditional release.
That means he can
go to any community he wants, the only restriction being that he would have to
register as a sex offender with the local law enforcement agency once a year,
Rosenfeld said.
Boggs must be released somewhere in Sacramento County
because state law requires that convicted sexual molesters be returned to the
county in which they committed their crime, according to Kirsten MacIntyre,
assistant director for external affairs at California Mental Health
Department.
Registered
sex offenders
Lodi:
96
Galt:
29
Acampo:
16
Lockeford:
5
Herald:
4
Woodbridge:
3
Clements:
1
Stockton:
782
Elk Grove:
95
Sacramento:
1,676
Total in San Joaquin
County: 1,185
Total in Sacramento County:
2,591
No sex offenders were reported in Thornton and Victor.
— Source: California Attorney
General.
What
makes Malson
nervous is that one location being considered for Boggs is a trailer on property
at Rio Cosumnes Correctional Center on Bruceville Road, some 10 miles northwest
of Galt City Hall. Malson
envisions Boggs doing his grocery shopping at Raley's supermarket on Twin Cities
Road, just east of Highway 99, seven miles from the correctional
center.
Herald was another location once considered for Boggs, but River
City Recovery Center, an alcohol and drug rehabilitation center on Alta Mesa
Road northeast of Galt, turned down a request to house Boggs.
For a list
of registered sex offenders, see http://www.meganslaw.ca.gov.
Because of the Fourth of
July holiday, next week's Galt City Council meeting will be held at 7 p.m.
Monday at City Hall, 380 Civic Drive.
Scripps-McClatchy News Service contributed to this
report.
Contact
reporter Ross Farrow at rossf@lodinews.com.
First published:
Tuesday, June 27, 2006
