{"id":196141,"date":"2026-02-27T07:15:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T07:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/196141\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T07:15:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T07:15:07","slug":"fresno-councilmember-annalisa-perea-plans-legislation-to-block-registered-sex-offenders-from-seeking-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/196141\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresno councilmember Annalisa Perea plans legislation to block registered sex offenders from seeking office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; Fresno city councilmember Annalisa Perea says she plans to create legislation that would prevent a registered sex offender from running for council.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Fresno resident Rene Campos, who is a registered sex offender, told Action News earlier this week he plans to run for the District 7 seat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">RELATED: <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc30.com\/post\/are-not-past-registered-sex-offender-seeks-join-race-fresno-city-council-district-7\/18647775\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#8216;You are not your past&#8217;: Registered sex offender seeks to join race for Fresno City Council<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">That district includes Old Fig Garden, east central Fresno, and parts of southeast Fresno.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Campos would join a crowded field vying for the seat when Councilman Nelson Esparza&#8217;s term runs out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;I know several of my colleagues share similar feelings and I look forward to bringing forth legislation to limit somebody&#8217;s ability to serve publicly if they do carry that badge on them,&#8221; councilmember Perea said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Fresno County Clerk and Registrar of Voters James Kus says state law does not prevent a registered sex offender from running for office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Campos has not yet filed, but has until March 6 to submit his paperwork.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The primary election is June 2.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KFSN-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; Fresno city councilmember Annalisa Perea says she plans to create legislation that would prevent&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196142,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[91472,112,91471,114,113,294],"class_list":["post-196141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-91472","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-councilmember-annalisa-perea-plans-legislation-to-block-registered-sex-offenders-from-seeking-office","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-timely"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}