After the arrest of two monitored sex offenders in Orange County on suspicion of murdering four women, Sen. Patricia Bates (R-Laguna Niguel) proposed requiring fugitive sex offenders to spend up to three years in prison.

Senator Bates commented on the legislation, saying, “Drones offer many fantastic uses for society, but dropping porn, drugs and guns into our prisons and jails is not one of them. The bill simply makes it clear that flying unauthorized drones over California’s correctional facilities is...

"When a rapist or child molester cuts off his GPS device and evades the law, the state has been put on notice that others are at great risk," said Sen. Patricia Bates (R-Laguna Niguel), the bill's author.

The California State Senate passed legislation Friday that would make the flying of drones over prisons or jails in California a misdemeanor offense, sending the bipartisan measure co-authored by local state senators to the desk of Gov. Jerry Brown.

“Firefighters face tremendous risk, and the last thing they need is to have a drone get in their way and potentially cause a catastrophic crash of public safety aircraft,” Bates said.