Robert Coombs, CALCASA’s Director of Public Affairs, was appointed by Governor Schwarzenegger to serve on the California Sex Offender Management Board. This appointment does not require a legislative confirmation and has no salary.
On September 20, 2006, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed Assembly Bill 1015, which created the California Sex Offender Management Board (CASOMB).
Because California is the most populated state in the Union and has had lifetime registration for its convicted sex offenders since 1947, California has more registered sex offenders than any other state with about 88,000 identified sex offenders (per Department of Justice, August 2007). Currently, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) supervises about 10,000 of those 88,000 sex offenders, of which about 3,200 have been designated as High Risk Sex Offenders (CDCR Housing Summit, March 2007). Additionally, there are about 22,500 adult sex offenders serving time in one of 32 state prisons operated by CDCR (California Sex Offender Management Task Force Report, July 2007).
The mission of the board is to is to address issues, concerns and problems related to community management of adult sex offenders by identifying and developing recommendations to improve policies and practices.
Visit the California Sex Offender Management Board website to learn more about the Board’s duties and reports.
