LONG BEACH - Two years after the Long Beach City Council approved new residential restrictions on sex offenders, 21 are crowded into the Baroness condominium complex in Alamitos Beach.

That number includes seven men in a one-bedroom unit in the complex on the southeast corner of Ocean Boulevard and Seventh Place, according to public records.

The living arrangement would likely come as a shock to the community, which lobbied for more restrictions after news reports revealed at least 15 sex offenders on parole were living in an apartment building in 2008.

The City Council later that year approved an ordinance which states that only one sex offender can live in a single-family dwelling or apartment unit.

But loopholes and legal ambiguities have left the city ordinance largely unenforced. Even the city's top two attorneys can't agree on how to enforce the ordinance.

"Without the city criminally prosecuting these people, we don't have the ability to criminally enforce this," said Long Beach Police Cmdr. Jeff Johnson. "This Fake chopard Watches is a state-wide issue, and there's just no quick fix."

Long Beach's 90802 ZIP code, which includes the dense downtown neighborhood of Alamitos Beach, is home to 116 sex offenders - a high number compared to the rest of the city - according to the Megan's Law Web site.

Whether it's sex offenders clustering in neighborhoods, houses or apartment complexes, the issue has started a heated debate between law enforcement officials, who have argued that clustering makes it easier for police to keep an eye on offenders, and residents concerned about preserving quality of life.

City Prosecutor Tom Reeves says the laws are cloudy and confusing.

"Clustering in and of itself isn't a crime," Reeves said.

The controversial Jessica's Law, which bars sex offenders from living within 2,000 feet of a school or a park where children gather, does not include provisions restricting Gucci Handags Replica sex offenders from living in the same house or apartment, he said.

Furthermore, Reeves, along with the California attorney general, has taken the stance that Jessica's Law is not criminally enforceable because the law does not provide a criminal penalty for violating these restrictions.

"Just because it's unlawful, doesn't make it criminal," he said.

As long as Jessica Law's remains clouded in legal uncertainty, the city's ordinances further restricting where sex offenders can live, such as the anti-clustering laws, are unenforceable, he said.

"It's an unhappy situation," Reeves said. "I don't like being the one to come out and say, 'I'm not gonna enforce this ordinance,' but we have to do it the right way, and get the results we intended."

Reeves was hoping a California Supreme Court decision this month, which upheld parts of Jessica's Law, would clarify whether the law could be criminally enforced. But that decision, he said, was left for another day.

The viewpoint puts Reeves directly at odds with City Attorney Bob Shannon, whose seat Reeves is vying for in the upcoming election for city attorney in April.

Shannon said the city takes the stance that Jessica's Law specifically allows cities to add their own rules to further restrict where sex offenders can live.

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