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FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Fresno City Leaders are moving guardant with plans for an ordinance that would barroom a imaginable assembly candidate, who is simply a registered enactment offender, from being capable to participate assorted metropolis facilities.
That candidate, present pushing back.
"The constitution does not assistance authorities the authorization to pre-select who is worthy of democracy. Voters decide, not councils, not rhetoric, not fear," says Rene Campos, District 7 Fresno City Council Potential Candidate.
Campos says helium is not backing distant from the contention for Fresno City Council.
The imaginable campaigner is calling retired the metropolis for what helium describes arsenic an organization overreach. This, aft councilmembers endanger to make authorities that would barroom him from efficaciously doing his occupation if elected.
"We're not going to let our metropolis to beryllium represented by enactment offenders. We person limits astir authorities instrumentality that we can't control, but determination is simply a batch of power that we bash person locally," says Miguel Arias, Fresno City Councilman.
Registered enactment offenders are typically prohibited from areas wherever children stitchery similar schools, parks, daycares, and more.
Council Member Miguel Arias says the metropolis intends to widen those restrictions with an ordinance that would barroom immoderate registered enactment offender from metropolis facilities similar assembly chambers, assemblage centers, constabulary and occurrence stations.
"We person plentifulness of wide authorization and quality to bounds access," says Arias.
Arias tells Action News that they person already sent their directive to the Fresno metropolis attorney.
On his run website, Campos has a video of him adjacent to kids who look to beryllium AI-generated.
Arias says that being astir children is portion of the job. He asked america to conscionable him extracurricular of Broadway Parque, a task helium helped complete, to beryllium that point.
"Fundamentally successful my view, it would beryllium intolerable for anyone who is simply a registered enactment offender to beryllium an effectual assembly member," says Arias.
But Campos says he's being wrongfully targeted and painted arsenic idiosyncratic to fear.
"I've accepted work for my past. I've completed each request the tribunal imposed. The condemnation was served. In America, rehabilitation is not a slogan. It has a ineligible principle," says Campos.
Campos says helium is not ruling retired taking ineligible enactment against the city. Arias says bring it on.
"In this case, I judge the taxpayers of Fresno and the residents of Fresno would overwhelmingly enactment the City of Fresno being sued to guarantee that a registered enactment offender does not person specified a immense presumption of powerfulness and authority," says Arias.
At this point, Campos has not officially filed his candidacy, helium has a week left.
Arias tells Action News, the assembly plans to person this ordinance successful effect earlier the superior predetermination acceptable for June.
Action News did interrogation respective of the different candidates earlier this week; you tin find much accusation astir them here.
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