If the state can’t enforce how many sex offenders may live in a single home, Fresno County says it will.

Supervisors Garry Bredefeld and Brian Pacheco are introducing an ordinance Tuesday that would limit any single-family home housing sex offenders to six beds.

Sex offenders are allowed to live in residential neighborhoods, and Bredefeld said the county’s “hands are tied.”

The supervisors are interpreting state law that limits how many sex offenders that can live in a single home to six total (including non-sex offenders). There are exemptions for living with relatives.

The new ordinance, supervisors said, would give the county teeth to enforce the law when the state has not.

The Fresno County Sheriff’s Office said some facilities were found with as many as 16 people living in a sing

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