April 11, 2013
Seeking smarter rules for sex offenders
"Janice Bellucci of Reform Sex Offender Laws believes offenders should go to prison. But after they get out, she wants them to have a chance to lead stable lives.
Janice Bellucci, president of the California chapter of Reform Sex Offender Laws, casts her cause as a civil rights movement.
Janice Bellucci is a mother of two, the wife of a pastor and a former Girl Scout leader active in volunteer work.
She lives in a gated community an hour's drive north of Santa Barbara, with needlepoint pillows on the sofa and a vegetable garden in the backyard. She is also the public face of an organization advocating for the closest thing to an untouchable caste in our society: California's 88,000 registered sex offenders.
A former aerospace lawyer, Bellucci is the president of the California chapter of Reform Sex Offender Laws, a national group of offenders, family members, psychologists and attorneys registered as a nonprofit.
The California branch holds meetings every other month, closed to the media, to discuss offenders' rights and legal actions she is taking. Bellucci believes sex offenders should go to prison for their crimes. Her target is the crazy quilt of state and local laws regulating their conduct after they get out."
http://articles.latimes.com/2013/apr/11/local/la-me-holland-sex-offenders-20130412
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