Sexually violent predators: transitional housing facilities: report.

Plain English Breakdown

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Report on Transitional Housing for Sexually Violent Predators

The law requires the State Department of State Hospitals to study and report on the benefits and feasibility of creating transitional housing facilities for sexually violent predators who are conditionally released.

What This Bill Does

• Requires the State Department of State Hospitals to analyze if it is good and possible to make special homes for people who have been found guilty of sexual violence but are allowed to leave under certain conditions.
• The analysis must look at how these transitional housing facilities could help manage the release process better.
• By January 1, 2027, the department needs to write a report about their findings and send it to lawmakers.

Who It Names or Affects

• The State Department of State Hospitals

Terms To Know

sexually violent predator

A person found by a court to have committed sexual violence and is likely to do so again.

conditional release program

A plan that allows certain people who are in custody for being sexually violent predators to be released under specific conditions.

Limits and Unknowns

• The bill does not specify what the transitional housing facilities would look like or how they would work.
• It is unclear if and when these facilities will actually be built based on this report.

Official Summary Text

SB 380, Jones.
Sexually violent predators: transitional housing facilities: report.
Existing law provides for the civil commitment of a person who is determined to be a sexually violent predator. Existing law establishes a procedure by which a person committed as a sexually violent predator may petition for conditional release under the conditional release program, and requires the court, if it makes a specified determination, to place the person on conditional release. Existing law generally requires that a person released on conditional release pursuant to these provisions be placed in the person’s county of domicile prior to their incarceration unless extraordinary circumstances exist requiring placement outside the county and notice and an opportunity to comment on the proposed placement is given to the designated county of placement, as specified. Existing law requires the State Department of State Hospitals, or its designee, to consider specified factors when
recommending a specific placement for community outpatient treatment, including the concerns and proximity of the victim or the victim’s next of kin and the age and profile of the victim or victims in the sexually violent offenses committed by the person subject to placement.
This bill would require the State Department of State Hospitals to, on or before January 1, 2027, conduct an analysis of the benefits and feasibility of establishing transitional housing facilities for the conditional release program, and to submit the findings of the analysis in a report to the Legislature.
This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.

Current Bill Text

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