…State law-enforcement leaders have asked the governor and our state legislators to not release convicted felons from our state prisons without some form of monitoring. If our state leaders are compelled to reduce staffing to such an extent that parole supervision is not provided for all criminal offenders, we urge our state leaders to place the appropriate terms of parole on the offenders so that local police officers and sheriff’s deputies can monitor them.

The California Police Chiefs Association recently asked the governor to reconsider his position: The proposed parole policies provide that anyone convicted of a so-called non-serious, non-violent, non-sexual offense will be directly discharged upon release from state prison, without any parole accountability…

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