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What are your responsibilities as a park owner?
Parts of the law surrounding a park owner’s obligations to their tenants/residents when it comes to the California sex offender database are clear, while other portions remain open to interpretation. We wanted to get to the bottom of things, so we reached out to our Legal Hotline attorneys in search of clarification.
According to Dan Rudderow, of Rudderow Law Group “The law is clear on duties to prospective tenants/residents, but unclear as to duties owed to current tenants. A landlord has the affirmative duty to provide a notice to prospective tenants/residents that includes the sex offender database website. There is specific language that needs to be included in this notice, however, no other specific or identifying information about the sex offender is required. The only obligation is to provide notice “concerning the California sex offender databases and the types of information contained in them, including the specific location of offenders.” (Civil Code section 2079.10a).
“The law is less clear as to obligations to existing neighbors/tenants/residents, however,” continues Dan. “I interpret the law to impose no additional responsibility on the landlord or park owner to inform each neighbor that a sex offender has moved into the neighborhood. Similarly, a sex offender is not obligated to notify neighbors about his/her sex offender status.”
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