A nightmare for law enforcement and civilians is brewing in one of the bluest states in the country.
Thanks to gross incompetence, it may take the Oregon Board of Parole ten years to classify the state’s sex offenders.
The agency predicts it will miss another deadline — three and a half years from now — unless lawmakers in Salem get them more money and staff.
According to the latest figures, 32,790 registered sex offenders call Oregon home. Thanks to the Board of Parole, 20,825 remain without a classification level.
Portland’s ABC affiliate, KATU, reports that the Board of Parole classifies sex offenders on a scale of one to three based on the likelihood of becoming a repeat offender.
As a consequence, thousands of Oregon sex offenders live in relative anonymity, certainly without their neighbors or employers knowing that they may have been designated a likely re-offender.
The Board of Parole’s executive director claims that the agency has kept up with monitoring so-called “sexually violent dangerous” sex offenders.
The Post Millennial further reports:
With the agency classifying 170 offenders a month, it would take over 10 years to clear the backlog.
State Senator Cedric Hayden told the outlet, “What’s really disappointing to me is they have the opportunity in this budget process to ask for a policy option package. We call it a POP, but it’s a policy option package where they’re telling us we probably need 30 [full-time positions] to accomplish this by the deadline, but they’re not even asking for funding for it. We’re actually working on amending their budget so that we can drive an additional $6 million for personnel to catch this up.”
State lawmakers can decide to give the parole board more money in order to hit the target deadline. Hayden noted that Oregonians have a need to know how dangerous a sex offender is if and when they decide where to live.
Hayden has voted against extending the Board of Parole’s latest deadline three times, telling KATU, “Is it acceptable for the parole board to miss their deadline again?”
“Really, our only avenue is to go out and talk to Oregonians and say, ‘contact your lawmaker. Don’t let them extend that anymore. Stand up to this and say, ‘this is important for our communities,” he added.
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There should be no one surprised by this chain of events – all of it has been purpetrated by communists & socialist sympathizers within One major party who prefers We The People regard them as ‘ only ‘ liberals . All manifestos supporting an ‘ ism ‘ are based on control & censorship , drowning out the voices of a Free People in their desire of place & standing within their own ranks , believing that they will earn party status , per ccp , by ‘sacrificing for their party . Problem has always been – once ‘IN Power ” these folks disappear overnight , as did Hitler’s Brown Shirts or Mao’s Red Guards . The People have taken the bait , only patriots have not , and as always , it is Patriots that will save America . not the Dreamer Brigades of confused geneology & make-believe .
As it’s only blue states, who cares?
It’d be wise to fence Oregon off and let it rot…..make that the whole west coast.
Registration is like restraining orders. A complete waste.