Source: ACSOL
CA Senate Bill 680, which could have added up to 30,000 people to the registry was first amended, then passed by the Senate Appropriations Committee on May 23. The original language of the bill would have required individuals convicted of sexual intercourse with a minor who is more than years younger in age to register as a sex offender regardless of the date of conviction. As amended, the bill would not be applied retroactively, but instead would be limited to those convicted of this offense on or after January 1, 2026.
The addition of those convicted of this offense to the sex offender registry would result in higher registration costs paid for by local law enforcement agencies. Those agencies already spend up to 66 percent of their resources for sex offender registration and supervision, according to the bill analysis. In addition, the Department of Justice stated the expected increase in the number of people required to register would result in potentially significant costs for that agency.
Further, there would be significant costs to incarcerate the number of people convicted of this offense. The average annual cost to incarcerate one person in county jail is about $77,252 per year and the same cost to incarcerate on person in state prison is $133,000, according to the bill analysis.
Due to its passage by both the Senate Public Safety and Appropriations Committees, Senate Bill 680 will next be considered on the Senate floor. The date for that consideration has not yet been determined.
Download the analysis
SB 680 - Legislative Analysis - Senate Appropriations - May 2025
This is an awesome step, but this bill must still be stopped.
Is the state not requesting Federal funding as they’re allowed to do for registry efforts?
Personally, I find it funny that these criminal regimes keep holding onto their Registries and pretending like they do something for someone. But what is it that the Registries do? I think the main thing that Registries do is make a**holes and dumb people feel good. And truly, that might be all that the criminal regimes and their trash supporters want.
I’ve believed for a very, very long time that there are exactly zero informed, intelligent, moral people who think that Registries should exist. But I also believe that there are a lot of people who think Registries should not exist and that Registries are not merely worthless, but a lot worse, and yet they STILL WANT Registries to exist. Simply because Amerika is chock FULL of trash a**holes. They want the hate and chaos.
Oh well, I guess. Amerika isn’t doing so well these days. Registries can help it keep sucking. A large majority of Amerikans are going to suffer.
I’ve proven for over 2 decades that Registries are worthless and don’t protect anyone. I’ll be spending this weekend doing the same, as always. It is a life goal of mine to ensure, at least with respect to my family, that the Registries aren’t just worthless, but that they are a hell of a lot worse and insanely counterproductive. I’ll also continue to help ensure that the Registries only exist at the highest possible cost of time, money, goodwill, peace, and freedom of others. All Amerikans must pay.
The criminal regimes and their trash supporters can keep their Registry toy. Keep jacking off with it. Keep playing with themselves and having fun. There will continue to be real world, concrete consequences. They are too arrogant and dumb to care.
So a child’s private parts do have a price? The Committee just decided that it would be to costly to “save just one child.”
Smart though to not apply this retroactively. It would have cost them in the courts too. Surely at least one of the 30k people who got away with their sex crime without the true punishment – registration, would have sued.
Let me start by saying there should be NO public conviction registries, for all the reasons we all enumerate on this forum. Furthermore, no law should be retroactive. However, I don’t understand how an adult having sex with a minor escaped the registry scheme in the first place by definition of what the law considers crimes against minors (inability to consent).
I am not supporting putting more people on this asinine registry, and I am not supporting the claim that everyone under the age of 18 has the inability to consent, I just don’t understand how this was missed with the way the laws are currently written and enforced.
It looks like the state has found a way to replace all the people that were able to be removed from the registry
“No retroactive registration requirement.”
Honoring the Constitution… a step in the right direction! As a victim of retroactive registration in 2019 by the CA legislature, I hope this strengthens the case for those of us bumped from tier one to tier three in 2019!
Hey there’s more good news! I heard that the democrats killed that bill the republicans put forward that would’ve prevented us from getting out on elderly parole. So they’re not ideal but, they’re not totally useless. I love it when they actually stand up to the predatory MAGA types.
Let me see if I have this straight. The law will only apply to those who offend after Jan 1, 2026? So that implies that someone who commits the same crime on December 31 will not be required to register? This exposes two registry lies. The first lie is that the registry is a mechanism to enhance public safety. The second lie is that the registry is not punishment. Other than cost, there is no reason for no retroactivity except that the bill’s proponents are concerned about ex post facto issues. It doesn’t seem that cost would be a concern if the bill “saves one child.”
“Unlawful Intercourse” !?!?!?Because the people who engage in this consensual act are such a huge threat to the public!
“As amended, the bill would not be applied retroactively, but instead would be limited to those convicted of this offense on or after January 1, 2026.”
“would result in higher registration costs paid for by local law enforcement agencies”
Translation – paid for by intentionally-uninformed tax payers!
“Due to its passage by both the Senate Public Safety and Appropriations Committees, Senate Bill 680 will next be considered on the Senate floor.”
SOMEONE PLEASE STOP THE MADNES of these anti- American nut jobs posing as our American lawmakers!