{"id":702,"date":"2015-04-14T00:44:02","date_gmt":"2015-04-14T00:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sdc.wastateleg.org\/conway\/?p=702"},"modified":"2020-09-17T00:09:53","modified_gmt":"2020-09-17T00:09:53","slug":"conway-unfair-distribution-of-sexually-violent-predators-must-stop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/senatedemocrats.wa.gov\/conway\/2015\/04\/14\/conway-unfair-distribution-of-sexually-violent-predators-must-stop\/","title":{"rendered":"Conway: Unfair distribution of sexually violent predators must stop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Courts must consider releasing sexually violent predators back to the counties they were committed in, as a result of an amendment offered today to House Bill 1059 in the Washington State Senate. Up until now, sexually violent predators who are conditionally released from McNeil Island, a Special Commitment Center in Pierce County, do not have to be released to their county of origin and courts do not have to consider this option.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis places an unfair burden on Pierce County,\u201d said Sen. Steve Conway, D-South Tacoma, co-sponsor of the amendment. \u201cThis legislation clears up what has become a dangerously unfair distribution of sexually violent individuals in Pierce County, a county that makes up only 12 percent of our state\u2019s population.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Senate Bill 5099 was the original vehicle for this legislation but did not make it out of the Senate before the legislative cut-off deadline. The amendment to HB 1059 essentially revives SB 5099 and allows it to continue to move forward.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPierce County cannot be expected to foot the bill for every sexually violent predator from around the state that is committed to McNeil Island,\u201d said Conway. \u201cThis critical amendment provides the opportunity for the sexually violent predator\u2019s home county to pay for their rehabilitation and monitoring.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courts must consider releasing sexually violent predators back to the counties they were committed in, as a result of an amendment offered today to House Bill 1059 in the Washington State Senate. Up until now, sexually violent predators who are conditionally released from McNeil Island, a Special Commitment Center in Pierce County, do not have to be released to their county of origin and courts do not have to consider this option. \u201cThis places an unfair burden on Pierce County,\u201d said Sen. Steve Conway, D-South Tacoma, co-sponsor of the amendment. \u201cThis legislation clears up what has become a dangerously unfair&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":703,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"disable_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-release"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Conway: Unfair distribution of sexually violent predators must stop - Sen. 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