Stop Predator Dumping Act
Sponsored By: Representative Whitesides, George [D-CA-27]
Introduced
Summary
This bill would create a federal framework to prevent concentrated placement of conditionally released sexually violent predators. It would require covered States to adopt geographic placement rules, direct the Department of Justice to study placement patterns, and authorize grants to help States implement best practices.
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- Communities and neighborhoods: Would limit clustering by barring placements within a 10-mile radius of another covered individual and by capping placements in a neighborhood at 25 percent of a large county's total. It aims to reduce repeated burdens on rural and low-capacity areas that have received many placements.
- States: Would require each covered State to set and enforce a placement framework and follow sequential-placement rules so less-burdened county subdivisions receive new placements before more-burdened ones. States must certify adoption of the best practices to be eligible for grant funding.
- DOJ study and grants: Directs the Attorney General to begin a study within 60 days and publish best practices within one year and creates a grant program to help States implement those practices with appropriations described as "such sums as may be necessary".
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Analyzed Economic Effects
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Federal study and grants to states
This bill would require the Attorney General to study where sexually violent predators are placed. The Attorney General would start the study within 60 days and publish best practices within one year. The Attorney General would be able to award grants to States that certify they are adopting the best practices. The grant program would be authorized with unspecified appropriations of "such sums as may be necessary."
Placement limits for sexually violent predators
If enacted, each State that civilly commits and conditionally releases sexually violent predators would have to adopt placement rules. The rules would ban placing a released person within a 10-mile radius of any other placed person at the same time. States could not place someone in a county subdivision if another subdivision in that county currently has fewer placed people. In counties with more than 1,000,000 people, no subdivision or county governing district could hold more than 25% of the county's placed individuals. The bill also defines who counts as a covered State and a covered individual.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Whitesides, George [D-CA-27]
CA • D
Cosponsors
There are no cosponsors for this bill.
Roll Call Votes
No roll call votes available for this bill.
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