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Not In My Backyard

November 23, 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 “Not in My Backyard,” a radio show, and discussed state policies governing sex offenders. The documentary features interviews with parole agents, probation officers, a California Department of Corrections official and several

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City Changes Rape Kit Testing Policy

November 19, 2009

posted in: Public Affairs

Laura Strickler reported earlier this week about a city that has changed it’s rape kit testing policy in response to a CBS News investigation. The investigation “found 20,000 untested kits nationwide.” The San Antonio Police Department “will now test all rape kits in stranger cases and will also go back and test all untested stranger

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Weekly News Update: Week of November 9th

November 16, 2009

posted in: Public Affairs

Governor to submit plan to reduce prison crowding Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger tonight will give federal judges a road map to reducing state prison overcrowding that involves waiving some state laws so sentencing regulations can be changed and new private prisons built. The Justice for Survivors of Sexual Assault Act The Justice for Survivors of Sexual

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CBS News: “Thousands of Rape Kits Wait to be Tested”

November 12, 2009

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Armen Keteyian reported earlier this week that “thousands of rape kits throughout the nation never make it to crime labs for testing. Even the kits which are sent to the labs can go untested for months or years.” Watch the full segment here: Watch CBS News Videos Online

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CBS News: Rape in America

November 10, 2009

posted in: Public Affairs

Last night, on the CBS EVENING NEWS Armen Keteyian discussed the “results of a 5 month CBS News investigation into the astounding number of rapes in the United States that go unpunished or even investigated.” Nearly 90,000 women reported they were raped in the “United States last year and it’s estimated another 75,000 rapes went

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Special Report: CDCR’s Supervision of Parolee Phillip Garrido

November 5, 2009

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The San Francisco Chronicle reported that state parole “agents fell down on the job again and again during the 10 years they supervised sex offender Phillip Craig Garrido.” From 1999 until he was finally arrested in August, Garrido, 58, was supposed to be subject to regular visits and other checks by the state Department of

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