Megan’s Law bill addresses rental issues
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Tenants and landlords may be interested in efforts in Sacramento to clarify the application of Megan’s Law to rentals. Currently the sex offender registry cannot be used to discriminate in housing.
Landlords say that with the expanded online access to the database since December, some tenants are learning that offenders live in their buildings and are asking landlords to do something. Currently landlords are only required in written leases to provide tenants with the 900 information line for the registry.
Assemblywoman Nicole M. Parra (D-Hanford) has introduced a bill that would allow landlords to: use registry data to screen prospective tenants and refuse to rent to “high-risk” sex offenders; terminate the tenancy of a high-risk tenant; or notify other tenants, at the landlord’s discretion, about a tenant listed as a sex offender. The first hearing on the bill was held Tuesday by the state Assembly Committee on Public Safety.
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