Posted on 12/11/2006 2:31:36 PM PST by calcowgirl
Proposition 83, approved by 71% of voters, requires felony registered sex offenders to be tracked for the rest of their lives with Global Positioning System devices. It also prohibits all registered sex offenders from living within 2,000 feet of any school or park. Prison terms and parole periods also are lengthened.
Among the many questions: Who will pay for the GPS devices, estimated to cost up to $10 a day per device, plus staffing and computer costs?
Another major question: Do the laws apply retroactively? If so, every one of the state's 90,000 registered sex offenders — including 3,453 in the central San Joaquin Valley — would be banned from living near schools or parks, even if their crime was committed years ago.
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Assembly Member Sharon Runner, R-Lancaster, who helped draft Prop. 83, said the intent of the measure is to make the restrictions prospective, not retroactive. If courts decide otherwise, she said she will push clarifying legislation.
As for cost, she says she will lobby for the state to pay for GPS tracking, even for offenders under local authority. It will be expensive. The state's legislative analyst has estimated that Prop. 83-related GPS costs will run "several tens of millions of dollars annually" and will grow in 10 years to about $100 million a year.
The state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation is responsible for GPS tracking for offenders coming out of state prison, which amounts to about 300 offenders a month.
Left unanswered is who is responsible for tracking felony offenders coming out of local jails or on local probation, a population estimated to represent 59% of the 8,000 felony sex offenders convicted each year, according to the Legislative Analyst.
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MSM screwed up [no pun] as Americans correctly see perverts as gay, ergo a reflection on the dims.
That's exactly why I voted against it. The potential unintended consequences were staggering.
I'm waiting for the really expensive aspects. Since the predators can't live anywhere decent, they will get subsidized housing; they will demand constant therapy, room and board at the very least.
It would be so simple to force them to pay for the program, both the hardware and the monitoring. If they can't afford it, they stay in the slammer with minimum rations and NO amenities.
I agree! Let the perverts pay for the devices and monitoring as a pre requirement to their freedom.
Simple: Make the pervs pay. You don't pay the bill, your worthless butt goes back to prison.
what you need to concern yourself about is the precedent set..if the people accept this for a group that has been demonized you can bet incrementalism won't be far behind
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
what i'm suggesting is if you allow things like this based on something most agree is disagreeable then, eventually, you will have the same thing applied to you..be carefull what you cheer on.
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