Fresno school reacts to registered sex-offender Rene Campos hosting press conference near campus

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Big Picture Educational Academy leaders issued a connection condemning registered enactment offender Rene Campos for holding a property league crossed the thoroughfare from their campus.

Campos, a registered enactment offender looking to tally for Fresno City Council District 7, held a quality league astatine Saint John's Catholic Church successful downtown Fresno connected Friday day to code concerns expressed by immoderate Fresno metropolis assembly members.

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Big Picture Academy is crossed the thoroughfare from that church. Officials said they are appalled by Campos doing so.

"Our schoolhouse was afloat operational, with students visibly entering and exiting the building," the connection reads. "To clasp a run lawsuit nether these circumstances was profoundly troubling."

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The schoolhouse leaders besides said that their students' information is their fig 1 precedence and that they are actively exploring immoderate ineligible measures to support their communities.

"To usage an simple schoolhouse afloat of children arsenic a backdrop for a run lawsuit -- knowing afloat good that his beingness whitethorn beryllium unlawful -- is highly inappropriate and offensive," the leaders said successful the statement.

Fresno metropolis leaders are besides moving guardant with plans for an ordinance that would barroom assembly candidates who are registered enactment offenders from entering assorted metropolis facilities.