Parole board warns it will miss 2026 registry-leveling deadline; seeks IT upgrade and legislative changes

Jonathan Bennett, an analyst with the Department of Administrative Services Chief Financial Office, told the Public Safety Subcommittee on Monday that the governor’s 2025‑27 budget maintains operations for the Oregon Board of Parole and Post‑Prison Supervision and includes an investment in an information‑technology upgrade.

"The 25‑27 current service level is approximately $45,000 more than the 23‑25 legislatively approved budget," Bennett said in his opening overview, and described the governor’s request as keeping the board near a steady funding level after one‑time projects phased out.

John Bailey, chairperson of the Board of Parole and Post‑Prison Supervision, and Dylan Arthur, the board’s executive director, told the subcommittee the agency faces several staffing and workload pressures that make meeting a statutory December 1, 2026, deadline to classify historic registrants unlikely.

"We are not going to meet that deadline," Bailey said, describing a backlog of unclassified registrants that the board is required to assign to one of three notification levels. The board reported approximately 12,615 registrants who remained unclassified as of Jan. 17, 2025.

Arthur described the board’s current capacity and the scale of the backlog. The board has six assessment specialists who each can complete about 22…