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Cary Jay Smith, the 59-year-old convicted sex offender recently released from a state psychiatric hospital has left the North County after briefly staying at a motel in the area. Since his release, he has been relocated to the cities of Orange, Corona and Lake Elsinore. San Diego’s North County was his most recent move, but the San Diego Sheriff’s...

NBC 7’s Niala Charles has more details on why police are asking the public to be aware of Cary Jay Smith.

The city of San Diego has agreed to remove a law which the locations where registered sex offenders who are no longer on parole for their crimes can live.

NBC 7’s Nicole Gomez explains what charges a former Sheriff’s deputy will be sentenced on.

A convicted sexual predator will not spend any time in custody for having sex with a 12-year-old victim, a decision that prompted outrage from the victim’s mother.

NBC 7’s Monica Dean reports on the controversial plea bargain that included no prison time for a man who admitted to having sex with a 12-year-old girl.

A Michigan judge has ruled that a convicted sex offender has joint parental rights to a child born from an alleged rape of a 12-year-old girl. The decision, made by Sanilac County Circuit Judge Gregory Ross, came after a DNA test last month confirmed that Christopher Mirasolo, 27, is the biological father of the 8-year-old boy, the victim’s lawyer, Rebecca...

Plaintiffs of the lawsuit claim the exclusion zones imposed by the ordinance exceed the total land area of the City of San Diego.

San Diego city officials decided Tuesday to keep the city’s Child Protection Act despite the potential of a lawsuit or the fact that it hasn’t been enforced for eight years.

A teenage girl who was reported missing Tuesday night was found hours later at the Santa Clarita home of a registered sex offender who had sexually assaulted her after befriending her days earlier, sheriff’s deputies said.

A Palmdale pimp who tattooed and sexually abused his human trafficking victims was sentenced Friday to 27 years to life in state prison, prosecutors said.