The Assembly Appropriations Committee is scheduled to consider the Tiered Registry Bill (SB 421) on Friday, September 1. The Committee will review dozens of that bills that day and determine which bills to release from the Suspense File. Bills not released from the Suspense File will no longer be viable. Bills released from the Suspense File will sent to the Assembly floor for consideration during the period September 5 through September 15.
“The Tiered Registry Bill faces an important hurdle on September 1,” stated ACSOL Executive Director Janice Bellucci. “It is time to make our voices heard again by calling the offices of Assembly members and asking them to release Senate Bill 421 from the Suspense File.”
Here is a link to the members and their phone numbers:
http://apro.assembly.ca.gov/membersstaff
During the Appropriations Committee meeting on September 1, no testimony will be taken from members of the legislature or the public. Instead, Committee Chairman Lorena Gonzalez-Fletcher will announce which bills are to be released from the Suspense File. She is not required to state any reason for the committee’s decisions and there is no appeals process for bills that are not released.
Does 288(a) attempted acts on under 14 land in tier 3?
My offense was noncontact but somehow an attempt of 288 is the same as committing the act? Tell me how that’s justified…
There’s no guarantee that I would have committed the actual act so how am I charged with child molestation if I didn’t actually do it?
At best I should be charged with distributing harmful matter but even then age was never discussed and the online profile said she was 18 right next to her picture…
Im pretty disgusted at the whole system. It has ruined my life, my family….and for what? Because I made a mistake when I had barely turned 20 years old?
The arrogance of these people amazes me. Theyre basically getting away with murder. What life is there to live?
It’s truly wonderful to hear all of the positive comments. As already noted (Matt), negativity will get you no where! Your responses are narrow minded, narcistic and it’s truly not about you. Your responses are nagative, condescending and you offer no hope whatsoever! Anyone with any intellectual capital knows that changes are required and the registration process must change. I highly recommend the mediator block Matt. His responses clearly identify him as probably a repeat offender who has no chance. Best of luck. Narcistic people are angry, arguementitive, act like victims and always trying to put those with other views down! Best of luck, but I’ll remain confident!!
Matt isn’t giving opinions! He is destructive, attacking other opinions and putting everyone down who gives a thought or opinion! Counter productive. Your response is baseless, defensive and it lacks merit!
Ok so now this bill says the SARATSO / Static 99R score “at time of release” must be used. Problem is the new 2016 Coding Rules says scores are only good for two years before someone should be reevaluated. Also, one’s alleged “risk” is reduced by half after five years of no reoffense. Again, these two points are specified by the Coding Rules itself. So SB 421 is not at all using the Static 99R the way it is intended.
Hope that the Static 99R / SARATSO is either removed from this bill -or- a nice, intellectual lawsuit exposing “Dr.” Karl Hanson’s scam is filed so that the SARATSO / Static 99R provision is struck by our judiciary.
if SB 421 doesn’t doesn’t pass I hope all the people posting all those negative comments about this bill shut the hell up and crawl back into their miserable little holes holes they’re mostly tier 3 RC’s already and know they’ll never be released from the registry either way so they’re negative bitter and angry but this bill is perfectly designed just for tr3 registrants let’s keep it real some people’s crimes are just Unforgettable and they do not deserve a second chance or their habitual offenders I’m with law enforcement on this one there has to be a tiered separation why waste time and money on someone who was arrested at 18 for dateing a girl who was 15.. 20 or 30 years ago and then you got the guy who violently molested three kids been sent to prison got out and did it again see what I mean there has to be tiered separation and if SB 421 doesn’t pass the only advice I can give everybody here is to make money and save your money and always have money it’s the only way to be free of these disgusting laws
Can’t we all just get along??
So the tiered registry will no longer exclude anyone from Megan’s website?
Only one question. The form i read said that any 311.1 will be a tier 2. No contact , possession only. No distribution, misdomeanor, lowest static 99, but tier 2? Tell me if i am wrong in what i read.
So is Tier 1 no longer granted exclusion from the public website?
There seems to be a lot of confusion now.
timmr; Thank you for the link. I’ve always appreciated your view on things.
Over 70 yrs and getting to live near a public park is considered progress.
Calls made!!
Let’s see:
No more internet exclusion= setback
Static 99 tier 1s are now tier 2 = setback
So they will go to tier system, then bump everyone up in severity of offense to get them for life anyway.
Unless you were convicted of pissing in public, where is upside to all this.
Ms. Bellucci, why are you supporting this? I honestly want to know.
So it seems like no one knows whether there are still internet exclusions for Tier 1 anymore?
Well stated! It’s clear that no other options exist/tiered laws are the only option, unless your a repeat offender with a long history! You can complain, put other comments down etc, but unless (almost impossible) your pardoned, you will remain and be required to register forever. Clearly, those strongly opposed either have a long history or multiple convictions. It’s time for change!
This is incredible. I have a CoR, been exonerated, record expunged and felony reduced to misdemeanor, yet when this is all said and done I will not qualify for exclusion! All I’ve done is waist a ton of money and had any hope pulled out from under me over and over and over. I know my story is just one of many. I feel for you all, I really do, but in the end that means nothing and does nothing for anyone. I am very sorry!!!
Hi All,
I have made the calls. I have written several times in the past, but never called directly. If like me you are somewhat apprehensive to call, it was pretty easy. Each took a minute tops. I just called and said my first name and city, that I was calling in support of SB 421. Most of the people I spoke with asked for my zip and then marked it down and thanked me for the call. Piece of cake!
RFS, Justice for all isn’t an attorney! If you get a Felony reduced to a misdemeanor, for all intense purposes you are no longer a felon! Geez. The bill states: convicted of! He just wants to feel better about himself
@All: As currently written in SB 421 please see the blue section of 290.46(b) (c) & (d)
290.46(c) “…described in, paragraph (2) of subdivision (d) of Section 290 and who is a tier two offender [or 647.6] the Department of Justice shall make available to the public via the Internet Web site”
Further 290.46(d)(1) says a Tier 2 offender after 10 years can petition for exclusion from the web site.
If your offense is not listed in proposed 290.46(b)(2)(A – U), [basically Tier 1], it appears you will be excluded from the public web site, but it’s confusing AND it seems you may need a low STATIC 99R score
At this point, we should wait for a final wording / version in a few days and then have lawyers/ACSOL review and confirm.
IMO.
Ok for those of us negatively affected by a high Static 99R score, can someone tell us why it is given so much credence? For someone to be bumped up from Tier 1 (or even 2) to Tier 3 *only* because of the Static does NOT make any sense. This is especially true given that the 2016 Coding Rules specifically state that reevaluation is needed after two years offense-free in the community AND that “risk” is reduced by half after five years offense-free in the community.
The addition of using only one’s SARATSO / Static 99R score “at time of release” seems very unfair, as it is an attempt to set one’s score in stone when it appears that the score itself is simply a very limited form of junk science. Given that reevaluation is needed after two years, and that “risk” is halved after five years offense-free, SB 421’s SARATSO provision isn’t even using the Static 99R that way it’s intended!
Someone explain this to me.
sex offender registration is punitive not regulatory..Russel v. Gregoire was allowed and validated by judicial advocacy judges on the 9th circuit..they do not care about justice they care about punishing sex offenders for life.
I’m sorry to say that SB 421, the tiered registry bill, did not make it out of appropriations.
Like I said, I always get challenged on this.
Code is 288(a), I received a CoR long after 1998, expunged, exonerated, felony reduced to misdemeanor, no internet exclusion.
Kathleen is correct. The Appropriations Committee today did NOT release the Tiered Registry Bill from its suspense file. As a result, the bill is dead and won’t be sent to the Assembly floor for a vote. An article will be posted on the website shortly.