Assembly approves AB 767 to require consideration of daycares and homeschool children in certain SVP placements

The Assembly on Jan. 20, 2026 approved AB 767, a bill that requires placement decision-makers to consider daycare facilities, homeschool children and other local conditions when determining conditional placements for certain sexually violent predators (SVPs).

Assemblymember Alan East, the bill’s author, described AB 767 as a child-safety measure that clarifies protections for private and home‑based schools and extends similar protections to daycares. Coauthors and floor speakers — including Assemblymembers Hadwick, DeMayo, Carrillo and others — framed the bill as a bipartisan step to address placement decisions they said sometimes fail to account for public-safety impacts on small or rural communities.

Assemblymember Hadwick detailed a recent planned placement in Alta, describing it as a community of…