The Tiered Registry Law committee of the CA Sex Offender Management Board (CASOMB) met recently and during that meeting the committee expressed their continuing support for three proposed changes to the Tiered Registry Law. The committee is expected to present those changes to the full board during the next CASOMB meeting which is scheduled for September 21 in Santa Clara county.
The three proposed changes supported by the Tiered Registry Law committee are (1) reduction from Tier 3 to Tier 2 for those convicted of PC 288(c), (2) reduction from Tier 3 to Tier 2 for those convicted of some offenses involving child pornography and (3) eligibility to petition for removal for those assigned to Tier 3 provided that the individual has not convicted a subsequent sex offense and has registered for at least 30 years.
Although the full CASOMB board will not meet in the months of July or August, the committee is scheduled to meet on July 24 and could meet in August as well.
“The ultimate goal of CASOMB is to prepare a report, including recommendations, to the California state legislatures regarding the three proposed changes to the Tiered Registry Law,” stated ACSOL Executive Director Janice Bellucci. “That report is expected to be finalized during calendar year 2023. It is less certain when the legislature will adopt those changes.”
Also during the recent full CASOMB meeting, the CA Department of Corrections reported that there are 20,106 registrants currently in custody and an additional 6,821 registrants who have been released and are currently on parole. All registrants on parole are required to wear a GPS device and to undergo treatment during the entire time of parole. There was no representative from the CA Department of Justice at the meeting and therefore there was no report regarding the total number of people required to register and/or how many registrants are currently homeless.
Petition for removal after 30 years? Heck by that time the destruction of one’s life is complete. Why not just make it life minus 6 months before death? I don’t see that as providing relief from the registry at all. Why bother…. 30 years?
This is great news! Thank you to Janice and her team. There is light at the end of the tunnel.
This is kinda BS, CASOMB originally agree’d to 311 being changed from lifetime to 10 years for simple possesion. Plain and simple they are TWO FACED, just another CORRUPT *FAKE* made up organization. They basically SLAPPED Janice in the face by agreeing originally to change simple 311 from lifetime to 10 years. I know the NAY sayers will say ohh its good life to 20 years, that is total BS they agreed originally from life to 10, this is simply another orgination that is NOT TO BE TRUSTED !!
This is kinda BS, CASOMB originally agree’d to 311 being changed from lifetime to 10 years for simple possesion. Plain and simple they are TWO FACED, just another CORRUPT *FAKE* made up organization. They basically SLAPPED Janice in the face by agreeing originally to change simple 311 from lifetime to 10 years. I know the NAY sayers will say ohh its good life to 20 years, that is total BS they agreed originally from life to 10, this is simply another orgination that is NOT TO BE TRUSTED !!
Oh well that puts any changes on the back burner till at least 2025 in my mind. There’s no way they’re going to do anything during an election year and 2023’s almost up. 6 months goes by in no time.
I stole a candy bar from the grocery store when I was 16, I guess I should be banned from grocery stores for life
Janice, didn’t the board ask you to provide more specifics about the federal recommendation of CP to 10 years? Did you provide that? What did they say?
So with a 20 year instead of 10 year termination point (for CP offenses), I’ll be 87 years of age instead of 77 when I then will become eligible to petition the court (providing that I’m still alive). That’s 14 years from now, instead of 4 years. At 87, I’m sure that I’ll have many, many more years left to enjoy family, friends, life (sarcasm, in case you didn’t notice). Please do not tell me that I should be grateful for CASOMB’s two-faced BS.
Nonetheless, I am grateful for all of the efforts of Janice, ACSOL, and all who continue to work on our behalf. Thank you.
I plan on being there if they allow comment from the public.
30 years is far too long, but I will take it over an indeterminate amount of time. Maybe even start to push for 20 years?
Nothing will inherently change unless we don’t speak up and stand up.
Oh…Cool…So for my single misdemeanor that has me placed on Tier 3, I can petition to get off the registry after 30 years alongside Phillip Garrido and others like him. I see…
Dr. Karl Hanson, the creator of Static-99 that the state of CA utilizes a recidivism rating, has done extensive research to identify 17 years of monitoring is the maximum time. The state of CA is not using science based research with their tiered terms. Also, the 20 years or higher terms negates the criminal court system exists. Should one recidivate, then they go to jail even longer. That is when the registry length resets.
Research has already shown that once an sex offender has been exposed/caught, then an overwhelming majority will not recidivate as many states have cited a 3.3 – 3.5% recidivism rate for decades.
311 was originally categorized as tier 1 before legislation changed it at the last moment and without any scientific research to go from tier 1 to tier 3. This is fear mongering as well as retributive. Correcting this injustice from tier 3 to tier 1 is just a small gesture because having any monitoring term beyond 17-years is the more grave injustice.
The state cannot pick and choose which scientific research is good and which should be ignored. Either the scientific research is good research or bad. Since the state is using Dr. Karl Hanson’s Static-99, one of many researched items, then Dr. Hanson’s 17-year max monitoring of sex offenders must also be upheld as the leading determinant in any CA state tiering of sex offenders.
In this day and age of technology and accessibility of information, why isn’t ACSOL ramming down Dr. Hanson’s 17-year max monitoring research at CASOMB and state courts? Why are arbitrary numbered terms the standard when there’s no research behind it. The whole point the registry changed from punitive to administrative was due to bad research that sex offenders recidivate a “frightening and high” 80%, making sex offenders irredeemable to trample over their civil rights to be treated like equal US citizens?
whatever happened to the whole ALI thing and changing the Model Penal Code? Seems like they fell off the map unless I missed an update
I was placed on the registry at 18, I’ve been on the registry 24 years now.
Back in 2015 I was a Leifer with no possibilities of ever getting off the registry, now I only have 12 months left to go, So don’t ever give up I know 30 years sounds long but at least you’ll get a chance to die in peace.
I have no doubt that tier 3 offenders will get a 30 year offramp, just like someone mentioned on here already, they don’t want to fit the bill housing elderly sex offenders.
So there’s hope, when I was homeless I met a guy who lost his right arm while serving A seven year sentence for failure to register, got out and was placed in tier 3 with no possible chance of ever getting off, he’s 62 years old.
So I get it people in this guys situation A 30 year Offramp wouldn’t benefit them in the slightest.
On on the other hand if someone was placed in tier 3 in their early to mid 20’s A 30 year offramp would benefit them tremendously
CASOMB also needs to read “The Effectiveness of Sex Offender Registration and Notification: A meta-analysis of 25 years of findings”, Kristen Zgoba and Meghan Mitchell, 2021,
These are times to stand against CASOMB. Pay the cost to speak up. Confront them with data and requests for their validation of their position. Take action. Be a rebel against status quo by not going along with what the politicians and gov’t want on this issue.
Well I certainly hope they don’t hurt themselves by moving so quickly and recklessly…NOT.
I am EIGHTY years old! I have registered since 1998. I have been assigned to tier 3. I have to wait 5 more years to get off the registry?!