Issa Reintroduces Bill to Protect Community from Sexually Violent Predators
Escondido – Congressman Darrell Issa (CA-48), Senior Member of the House Judiciary Committee, reintroduced The Stopping Sexually Violent Predators Act, comprehensive reform legislation to fix the broken system that is currently and repeatedly placing sexually violent predators (SVPs) into communities, as well as near children, schools, and families.
"In California, Governor Newsom refuses to stop making our communities less safe by repeatedly forcing communities to tolerate and live next to the forced relocation of these violent predators into our neighborhoods,” said Rep. Issa. “But this issue is not unique to California, which is why we need a federal solution to prevent the compulsory placement of SVPs everywhere and develop a reform solution that ends this crisis. There is a better way than the current broken system, and we are moving it forward.”
SVPs are clinically diagnosed individuals convicted of sexually violent crimes. They are designated by doctors as incurable and are neither undergoing treatment nor in recovery. They are an obvious danger to any community, which is why these individuals should be confined within secure facilities, not in local neighborhoods.
Even though recent data has found that 70 percent of SVPs released into communities in California were returned to custody for violating their release terms, California’s state government continues to demand that these predators be forced into residential areas near families, children, and seniors. In fact, the number of SVPs in our community has continued to rapidly increase.
The Stopping Sexually Violent Predators Act will:
End federal taxpayer funding for SVPs outside of correctional or secure medical facilities.
Require states to report all convicted SVPs to the federal Department of Justice for review of potential federal charges.
The bill text can be found here.
Darrell Issa is the Representative of California’s 48th Congressional District, which encompasses the central and eastern parts of San Diego County and a portion of Riverside County, including the communities of Fallbrook, Valley Center, Ramona, Escondido, Santee, Lakeside, Poway, Temecula, Murrieta, and the mountain and desert areas of the San Diego-Imperial County line. Issa served as the Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform from 2011-2015.
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