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Senators criticize bills that would remove offender-leveling requirement
Summary
Republican senators warned that two bills the governor backed would remove or delay rules requiring risk-leveling of a large backlog of offenders; they promoted alternative bills to increase oversight and victim access.
Senator Bonham and Senator Hayden used floor time to sharply criticize two measures described in the record as Senate Bill 820 and Senate Bill 821, saying the proposals would remove or delay a statutory requirement for classifying a backlog of offenders.
The senators said the backlog is about 18,000 people and that previous legislative deadlines required the parole board and post-prison supervision systems to categorize those individuals by…
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