{"id":196171,"date":"2026-02-27T07:39:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T07:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/196171\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T07:39:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T07:39:10","slug":"fresno-councilmember-plans-legislation-to-block-registered-sex-offenders-from-seeking-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/196171\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresno councilmember plans legislation to block registered sex offenders from seeking office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/not-past-registered-sex-offender-073128581.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:&#039;You are not your past&#039;: Registered sex offender seeks to join race for Fresno City Council;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" 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=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">That district includes Old Fig Garden, east central Fresno, and parts of southeast Fresno.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Campos would join a crowded field vying for the seat when Councilman Nelson Esparza&#8217;s term runs out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#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=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Campos has not yet filed, but has until March 6 to submit his paperwork.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The primary election is June 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fresno city councilmember Annalisa Perea says she plans to create legislation that would prevent a registered sex offender&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196172,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[69063,2392,112,114,113,85383,85382],"class_list":["post-196171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-annalisa-perea","tag-central-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-registered-sex-offender","tag-rene-campos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196171","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=196171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}