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Residents, council members press city to review rules after sober-living operator’s past murder conviction draws protests
Summary
Public speakers at the Jan. 21 Oxnard City Council meeting raised safety concerns about a sober living house whose manager is a convicted child killer, prompting council requests for staff and the city attorney to examine a narrowly tailored ordinance to bar violent felons from operating group homes.
Public commenters at the Oxnard City Council meeting on Jan. 21 pressed the city for new rules after neighbors identified a sober-living house in their neighborhood whose manager, they said, was convicted years earlier in a child’s death. Speakers described safety concerns about the manager’s presence near a school and asked the council to act.
The discussion began during public comment when multiple residents and callers described anxiety over a sober living home in the Colonia area and named Dean Joseph Lutz as the facility’s manager. Several speakers recounted the underlying criminal case and said the manager’s presence in the neighborhood — they said two blocks from a school — created fear among parents. Jason McComb and Abel Velasquez described personal and community trauma…
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