Sex offenders to be relocated

Responding to complaints from residents, state parole officials have agreed to relocate six registered sex offenders who were living in a residential care facility, a state lawmaker announced Thursday.

California law allows up to six registered sex offenders on parole to live together in a such a facility. (Even more may reside together if they are legally related by blood, marriage or adoption.) Still, the state will move the parolees next week, said Assemblyman Anthony Portantino (D-La Canada Flintridge).

Also on Thursday, Los Angeles County Supervisor Mike Antonovich announced that he would ask the Board of Supervisors Tuesday to direct the county counsel to determine if state law would allow local governments to restrict the housing of sex offenders in neighborhoods.

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-- Louis Sahagun