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NYTs: California Struggles with Paroled Sex Offenders

September 29, 2009

posted in: Public Affairs

Solomon Moore, a journalist with the New York Times, wrote an article about monitoring paroled sex offenders in California. The piece also discussed the number of sex offenders on parole, the amount of resources spent monitoring sex offenders and legislation that will reduce caseloads for parole agents. California is the only state that places all

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WSJ: “Sex-Registry Flaws Stand Out”

September 3, 2009

posted in: Public Affairs

In a recent article, the Wall Street Journal discussed the California Sex Offender Management Board and the Jaycee Dugard case. The article also discussed the number of sex offenders on parole in California, the state’s sex-offender registry, risk classification, and the amount of resources spent monitoring sex offenders. Janet Neeley, a deputy California attorney general

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The California Report: “Governing Sex Offenders”

August 31, 2009

posted in: Public Affairs

Suzanne Brown-McBride is the Executive Director of CALCASA as well as the chair of California’s Sex Offender Management Board. Brown-McBride was recently interviewed for a story about Jaycee Lee Dugard and discussed state policies governing sex offenders. Listen to the interview here:

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Sac Bee Editorial: Living with the law as written

July 7, 2009

posted in: Public Affairs

Earlier today, the Sacramento Bee posted the following editorial about the unintended consequences of Jessica’s Law: Sometimes bad laws have a way of coming back to bite the people most responsible for enacting them. That’s the case with state Sen. George Runner, the principal sponsor of Proposition 83, the 2006 initiative popularly known as Jessica’s

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Geography and Public Safety: Sex Offender Residency Restrictions

June 17, 2009

posted in: Public Affairs

Geography and Public Safety’s latest issue focuses on “how mapping and spatial analysis can help jurisdictions understand the effects of restrictions on where sex offenders are allowed to live. Specifically, it discusses how residency restrictions affect recidivism — whether they hamper offenders’ reentry process and make it less likely that they will get treatment and

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Court upholds sex offender mental health detentions, but orders hearings for some

June 16, 2009

posted in: Public Affairs

Richard DeAtley reported over the weekend that “a key 2006 Jessica’s Law section allowing open-ended state mental hospital placement for sexually violent predators is constitutional, but defendants who fought re-commitment as the law took effect deserve a court hearing, appellate judges ruled.” The ruling came from a three-judge panel of the 4th District Court of

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