PROTECT-California Chair Alison Arngrim wrote a 3-page letter last week to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's task force on paroled high-risk sex offenders.
Arngrim addressed troubling signs that some on the task force want to
ration parole resources, leaving the majority of sex offenders without
any kind of meaningful surveillance and controls whatsoever. "We would
respectfully suggest that the Task Force leave politics to the
Governor," wrote Arngrim, "giving him the unvarnished and uncompromised
truth."
She also took aim at the "Static 99 test" which is being
promoted by the California Department of Corrections as a way to
predict which sex offenders should be put under intensive surveillance.
"Frankly, it appears that some members of the Task Force might allow
themselves to be used by the Department of Corrections to rubber stamp
an already-existing plan to drop dangerous sex offenders from high-risk
parole."
Arngrim added, "If the State of California must be dragged kicking
and screaming into meaningful surveillance of sex offender parolees,
what does that say about our commitment to protecting children,
families and communities?" The Governor's task force will be finalizing
its draft recommendations this week and holding public hearings in
Sacramento, Fresno and Santa Ana next week.
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