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SGC backs creating work group to study reinstituting parole, urges timely implementation
Summary
The Sensing Guideline Commission voted to support SSB 6074, which forms a work group to recommend a coordinated approach to reinstituting parole, while urging that parole not be treated as the only second-look option and asking for timely implementation.
Staff described SSB 6074 as a narrowed bill that removes direct statutory reinstatement and instead creates a parole-reinstitution work group to be staffed by Ruckel's Health Center and charged with making coordinated recommendations.
Commission members expressed conditional support: one commissioner said a work group was a positive step but should not foreclose other second-look opportunities, including judicial discretion. Miss Brandes moved to support SSB 6074 with an acknowledgment that parole is not the only path forward and that implementation should be timely; the motion was seconded and the chair announced the motion carried. The transcript records varying hand counts during roll call; the chair declared the motion carried and the staff will report the SGC’s support.
