With hundreds of sex offenders in violation of residency requirements designed to keep them away from children, parole agents in California last week began clearing them from neighborhoods near schools and parks. About 1,800 California sex offenders were in violation of Jessica’s Law, a measure passed with 70 percent support from California voters last November. The law, named after a 9-year-old Florida girl who was kidnapped, raped and murdered by a convicted sex offender in 2005, prohibits offenders from living within 2,000 feet of a school or park. California officials had given the offenders 45 days to move, but as of Thursday, about 850 parolees still hadn’t. So Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger ordered their paroles terminated.

The Examiner reports: Parole agents can continue sweeps of sex offenders living too close to schools and parks after the state Supreme Court refused to grant a broad injunction halting the arrests.  The court had blocked the state from arresting four parolees who claimed the so-called Jessica’s Law is too vague and unfairly punishes offenders after they are released from prison.

But in Monday’s ruling, the court refused to apply that protection to hundreds of other paroled sex offenders, saying they needed to look to lower courts to get their own injunctions.

Their own injunctions? I wonder if this guy, who videotaped himself raping a three-year-old girl, will someday be eligible for an injunction?