Steinberg seeks sex offender review beyond ‘what sounds good’

SACRAMENTO– California Senate leader Darrell Steinberg says he’ll seek a state investigation into California’s supervision of sex offenders that goes beyond the circumstances of two Orange County transients recently accused of killing multiple women while they were supervised by state and federal agents and tracked on electronic monitors.

Steinberg’s staff said Friday that the Sacramento Democrat planned Monday to formally request a probe by the office of inspector general. However, speaking at a public policy forum Monday afternoon, Steinberg said his office is still drafting a call for an inquiry into the $63.5 million California spends each year supervising some 6,000 sex offenders with GPS monitors. Full Article

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California RSOL will return to Sacramento on May 15 and 16. We will be sure to meet with Sen. Steinberg and/or his staff to discuss this issue. It is good that he is asking questions. We need to make sure he asks the right questions. Please join us if you can!

Let’s see..63.5 million for GPS, 24 million, just to maintain the “list”!
How much do they claim it costs to incarcerate one inmate every year?
How much for court costs? For public defenders? How much for law enforcement to do their compliance checks? How much for the sex offender counseling/classes?
How much is all of this costing the taxpayers of California? Did it ever occur to these politicians that if we spent some money on education, on prevention, on our at risk youth, that perhaps we would all be safer??

The inquiry must stay within parameters of parole….must focus on transients (homeless) and the parole personnel……state needs to help get parolees work and help pay for a residence …………….this can be financed by freeing people on registry already fifteen years without incident immediately without obstructions…there are gonna be alot of people without new crime that can be free from registry Today.

It’s about time someone in government started asking questions. I’m so glad Janice will be meeting with senate leader Steinberg and or his staff to input thoughts and ideas, and I’m sure they’ll be getting brought up to speed on the facts/truth about GPS monitoring and I’m sure much, much more. Thanks Janice and everyone else that goes to Sacramento on May 15th & 16th to show up and speak up. Thank you.

One thing not even considered is that even if some registrants are allowed to return to their former status where they are registered with the police only and are not on the web site or any of the predatory mug shot sites, how can Megan’s Law damage be undone. Remnants will remain and employers, apartment managers and others will still find them and discriminate. It seems almost undoable now that its already out there. Perhaps everyone should be issued a letter or card that says they are rhabbed and may no longer be discriminated against under any circumstances. Any thoughts.

GPS monitoring of registered citizens is the most politically motivated, ineffective and oppressive punishment our State applies. Satellite tracking by law enforcement of certain individuals, regardless of “justification”, is disturbing on many levels. The monitors have a documented history of failure and misreads which inure to the detriment of the wearer, their cost is ludicrous, and they are ineffective for their stated purpose. As we all know, former sex offenders have a very low reoffense rate. Spending millions of dollars to further persecute such a population, using equipment which is inundated with defects as well as preposterously expensive, is just asinine. It is the epitome of ex post facto punishment. The monitors should be returned to 3M, Qualcomm and others, their use discontinued, and a refund demanded.

It’s about time these questions are being asked. It should have happened a long time ago, and it only makes sense. Janice will be a great asset to have at the Sacramento meeting and hopefully get some answers. I noticed the word “penalty” in the article, too. I thought none of the registry was punitive, and only regulatory. I will make sure too print the article and highlight the word “penalty”.

Unfortunately you already know what is going to happen. Nothing except more restrictions and regulations applied retroactively to all sex offenders and NOT to the to the tiny handful who they should apply to.

We will all be taken back not a few steps by miles. There is nothing to be gained by politicians to get to the actual facts or the root of this problem. Logic and reason are not used…this is nothing more than a political opportunity for these parasites to use for their own selfish political gain.

Sorry…been there done that…SOS.

Someone who cares,
Good call, I missed that one. It not only state penalty, but states penalties, meaning more than one. I did print the article and highlighted as it just might come in handy at some point.

I have always talked about how difficult it is to track a person that is homeless. They can move about all day, and in some cases all night. The police would even prefer to know where a person lives. Can you just imagine a cop going into the woods to see what a P.C. 290 person is doing. It just does not work like that. No house or vehicle and what you have is a target that is hard to hit.