A democratic state has proposed a drastic plan that has been designed to reduce the backlog of approximately 12,500 sex offenders, but many residents, including survivors of sexual violence, are lively about it.
From sex offenders who live, work or go to school in Oregon, they are expected to undergo a risk assessment by local corrections agencies or the Oregon Board of Parole by December 1, 2026.
The assessment is designed to help the state determine how likely that these individuals commit new sex crimes.
The board of Oregon or conditional release fears that they will not meet the deadline, so instead the board supports a new account that will remove it, and another bill that would reduce the amount of perpetrators to be assessed.
According to the new proposal, the Board of Parole would only be necessary to complete risk assessments with perpetrators who are younger than 35 years old, as well as those who already have two or more beliefs of sex crime.
This means that hundreds of sex offenders do not have to re -assess or be classified again.
The board will continue with the assessments about people released from prison and those who move to Oregon.
'The board is never financed to achieve that deadline. Even a considerable influx of resources at the moment will enable us to meet the deadline, “chairman of the board John Bailey told the Senate Judger last week.
State leaders in Oregon have proposed a new bill and support that would help reduce the backlog of approximately 12,500 sex offenders who have to undergo a risk assessment
Chairman John Bailey is to support Bill 821, who will remove the December 1, 2026, as well as Senate Bill 820, which will reduce the disadvantaged amount that the State is currently confronted with. SB820 would remove more than half of the perpetrators from the list
While Bailey supports the new legislation, rape victims and lawyers have the feeling that they are being traumatized again.
“It just makes the problem disappear, but the problem will always be there, and it will get worse and it will get worse,” Courtney Gelbrich, a sexual violence lawyer, told Katu.
Danielle Tudor, a survivor of sexual violence, repeated the views of Gelbrich about the controversial decision.
“If these accounts pass this legislative session, we will never be supervised or power about the register of sex offenders and how it works,” Tudor told The Outlet.
“I cannot protect children as a violent, high risk -perpetrators can attend my practices, attend my games to attend the pizza parties -it's just unacceptable,” said Jane Mendoza, another lawyer said.
Senate Bill 821 will remove the deadline, while Senate Bill 820 will reduce the disadvantaged amount with which the State is currently confronted.
Bailey said that SB 820 is a solution for the crowded amount of sex offenders, and that research supports that younger perpetrators and people with multiple convictions will be addressed earlier.
With the new account, the agency predicts that the backlog will be reduced to 3,700 – more than half of the number of those mentioned to be assessed at the moment.
Gelbrich and Mendoza contacted the outlet valve after seeing the coverage of the disadvantage of the State of non -classified sex offenders in 2023.
At the time, they informed Katu of a sex offender of level 3 – the highest level – that moved from New York to Oregon.
The perpetrator does not remain classified because of the backlog, which means that the state is not aware of its high risk and how likely it could be offered again.
“Under Senate Bill 820 it seemed that the man would not undergo a risk assessment,” Katu said.
Mendoza described her fear knowing that the perpetrator of level 3 and others there are not detected in their state.
“To know that I had allowed children to go to the bathroom during the training, knowing that there was a registered sex offender who had received a level three in another state and was judged in Oregon, because Oregon could not get through their backlog, was shocking and horrible,” said Mendoza.
Dailymail.com contacted the Oregon Board of Parole for comments.
