{"id":202197,"date":"2026-03-03T13:31:35","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T13:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/202197\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T13:31:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T13:31:35","slug":"should-someone-who-is-a-registered-sex-offender-be-allowed-to-run-for-public-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/202197\/","title":{"rendered":"Should someone who is a registered sex offender be allowed to run for public office?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Local leaders and the community have been in an uproar after a candidate was revealed to have a record as a registered sex offender. <\/p>\n<p>Several Fresno city leaders spoke out Thursday at City Hall over the candidacy of Rene Campos, a registered sex offender running for Fresno City Council District 7.<\/p>\n<p>[RELATED] <a href=\"https:\/\/kmph.com\/news\/local\/fresno-city-council-candidate-sparks-controversy-over-sex-offender-status\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Fresno City Council candidate sparks controversy over sex offender status<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Councilmembers say they are considering legislation aimed at preventing registered sex offenders from holding public office.<\/p>\n<p>The National Association for Rational Sexual Offense Laws says individuals who have completed their sentences should have full constitutional rights, including the ability to run for office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Local leaders and the community have been in an uproar after a candidate was revealed to have a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-202197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202197","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=202197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}