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Legislators from rural districts press to pause CONREP placements, push for transitional housing and new laws
Summary
Several state senators and assemblymembers whose districts include the High Desert and Antelope Valley said repeated placements of conditional-release participants have concentrated risk in their communities and urged statutory changes, program suspension or development of transitional housing.
Lawmakers representing communities that have received multiple CONREP placements told the Joint Legislative Audit Committee the program is failing their constituents and urged rapid reforms.
Assemblymember Eduardo Carrillo said his High Desert district had three CONREP placements and described constituent confusion about how an out-of-state vendor was selected to help locate housing. “There seems to be ambiguity on how the process works,” Carrillo said. He asked whether the state could restart placement contracting through a new RFP that would allow in-state vendors to bid.
Senator Jones called the system “broken.” “If you add those two convicted and the 18 people who were returned to the Department of State Hospitals…that’s actually a 37 percent failure rate,” he said,…
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