{"id":381747,"date":"2026-07-01T05:07:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T05:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/381747\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T05:07:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T05:07:07","slug":"vote-should-registered-sex-offenders-be-allowed-to-run-for-public-office-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/381747\/","title":{"rendered":"VOTE: Should registered sex offenders be allowed to run for public office in California?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A California bill that would have barred registered sex offenders from running for local or state public office failed to advance Tuesday in the Senate Elections and Constitutional Amendments Committee.<\/p>\n<p>Assembly Bill 2753, authored by Assemblymember Esmeralda Soria, stalled after Soria rejected amendments that would have limited the ban to lifetime registered sex offenders.<\/p>\n<p>[RELATED] <a href=\"https:\/\/kmph.com\/news\/local\/bill-prompted-by-rene-campos-fresno-council-campaign-fails-in-senate-committee\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">California bill barring sex offenders from office fails. Now what?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>Current California law does not automatically prohibit registered sex offenders from running for public office if they otherwise meet the legal qualifications for office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A California bill that would have barred registered sex offenders from running for local or state public office&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381748,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8],"class_list":["post-381747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381747","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=381747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}