[JustTheNews] The audit noted a concern that it takes the state about 17 months to place individuals in the community because few want to rent to SVPs.
California is spending $1.7 million per year housing and treating each “sexually violent predator” discharged from state mental hospitals and in the process of transitioning to the community under care and supervision from a third-party contractor, a new state audit found.
About one third of those let out under supervision were ordered back to mental hospitals for noncompliance.
Between fiscal years 2003-2004 and 2023-2024 California paid almost $93 million to Liberty Healthcare to house, treat, supervise, and monitor 56 individuals the state has designated as “sexually violent predators,” — individuals defined as “convicted of specific sexually violent crimes and who also have significant mental health conditions as sexually violent predators.”
While the program has, on its face, been successful — only two participants, or 4%, reoffended during their supervision under Liberty Healthcare, one of whom was found to possess child pornography and the other failed a reporting requirement, compared to a 19% recidivism rate for those who were unconditionally released from state mental hospitals. Given that those given conditional release under the supervision of Liberty Healthcare are more of a threat than those with unconditional release, the 4% recidivism rate appears to be an improvement over the status quo.
Republicans attacked the program as a “no-bid contract,” but the state had tried four times to get other contractors to bid — Liberty Healthcare has won by default as the only bidder.
“Secretly attempted placements of SVPs near schools; attempted escapes and fence-hopping by SVPs; and the continuing hide-the-predator game-playing by the Newsom Administration has got to stop,” said State Sen. Minority Leader Brian Jones, R-San Diego. “The Legislature now has all the evidence we need to step in and reform the whole costly, wasteful, and dangerous SVP release program.”
The audit noted a concern that it takes the state about 17 months to place individuals in the community because few want to rent to SVPs, and local communities tend to assemble strong public opposition against any placements; in one near-placement, after the public was notified that a site was being considered, “vandals” flooded the house to make it uninhabitable.
When a court orders an individual released from state hospitals under Liberty Healthcare supervision, there is supposed to be a 30 day time frame from the order to placement in the community. In the 17 months until placement, individuals are held in state mental hospitals, which have extremely limited capacity relative to demand and are costly to hold individuals in. Because SVPs are not allowed to live near schools, and a homeschool counts as a school, the state audit noted when a new home school opens, SVPs must move.
The audit also found that in one third of cases, SVPs are unable to remain in the community due to noncompliance with the terms of their release; of the 56 individuals placed under Liberty Healthcare, 18 were sent back to mental hospitals for noncompliance.
The state auditor recommended that the state house SVPs waiting placement in transitional group housing that provides “supervision that is commensurate with the risk levels the residents may pose,” such as “24‑hour staffing and escorts when residents travel outside of the facilities.”
The overall audit found little fault with Liberty Healthcare, concluding it had “generally provided these individuals with the required services we evaluated in accordance with the number of services required by participants’ levels of care.”
The audit recommended that the state receive “best value” by considering allowing vendors to bid on separate services, or on providing services on a regional basis, and even consider moving some services in-house.
#7
They tried to move 10 0f these characters into a house down the street all with at least 2 or more sex crimes with children.
Neghbors all got together organized a protest got a county supervisor involved and got them all out of the neighborhood.
We found out that Liberty had told neighbors it was just a halfway house so also there was several code violations regarding ten living in that home,
The state sat on their hands,
One neighbor ran a Liberty rep out of the area.
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BREAKING: Senior Meta Engineer Reveals Anti-Kamala Posts Are "Automatically Demoted,” Admits Shadowbanning Tactics
"Say your uncle in Ohio said something about Kamala Harris is unfit to be a president because she doesn't have a child, that kind of sh*t is automatically demoted,”… pic.twitter.com/4DSkvzvKmO
…automatically demoted,” reveals @Meta Senior Software Engineer, Jeevan Gyawali (@JGyawali), to an undercover @OKeefeMedia journalist during a hidden camera date. He confirmed, “The person would not be notified,” but would see a decline in their post engagement and impressions, explaining that Meta’s “Integrity Team” is responsible for controlling content through “civic classifiers,” a system that “shadowbans” posts without notifying users.
Gyawali also revealed a specialized Special Weapons And Tactics (SWAT) team that was created at Meta, stating, “There is a SWAT team that's already set up since April… just to think about all the scenarios of how the platform could be abused.” When asked if Meta is doing their due diligence to protect democracy from disinformation, Gyawali ensured “that’s all going to be demoted 100%.”
When asked, “You guys [Meta] have the ability to influence the outcome of the election?” Gyawali confirmed, “Yes,” admitting Meta’s power to sway political outcomes. When asked if Mark Zuckerberg (@finkd), Co-Founder and CEO and Meta, supports Meta’s political influence and agenda to help the Democratic Party, Gyawali answered, “100%.”
[JustTheNews] A federal appeals court botched new Supreme Court precedent so badly in a lawsuit on federal strings for family-planning funding that it threatens to "puzzle judges and the public for years to come, while inspiring further executive overreach" on completely unrelated issues, according to a legal filing by a former Senate Judiciary Committee counsel for Utah Republican Mike Lee.
Marc Marie's Center for Environmental Accountability made a surprise appearance among friend-of-the-court briefs asking the full 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to rehear Tennessee's lawsuit against the Biden administration for cutting off its funds under Title X, which bars direct abortion funding, over its refusal to meet new abortion conditions that violate state law.
The Department of Health and Human Services' 2021 rule was par for the course with Uncle Sam's support for abortion even in the prior Republican administration. Last year, the Government Accountability Office, the investigative arm of Congress, found federally funded programs routed at least $1.89 billion to major abortion providers from 2019 to 2021.
The 1984 Chevron ruling upheld the Environmental Protection Agency's authority to define a "source" of pollution under the Clean Air Act. By rescinding Chevron deference in June, SCOTUS told lower courts to stop upholding "permissible" agency interpretations of their ambiguous statutes and instead evaluate whether it's the "single, best meaning."
"Given the dozens of Supreme Court decisions and countless circuit-level decisions that reached" the permissibility question, Chevron will remain undead in Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and Tennessee – giving the feds the continued "authority to flip-flop into new binding interpretations" – unless the full 6th Circuit reverses the three-judge panel, CEA said.
Marie's nonprofit files regulatory comments and briefs relevant to "lawfulness, efficacy, and tradeoffs of regulatory policy in the energy and environment space." He was also senior counsel in the Justice Department's environmental division and acting deputy solicitor at Interior.
Two joint briefs were predictable: a group of 22 GOP-led states and the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Catholic Medical Association, Christian Medical and Dental Association and National Association of Catholic Nurses. The Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC) filed its own brief calling for rehearing.
The 6th Circuit panel upheld a lower court ruling refusing to block the 2021 HHS regulation, which requires state recipients to offer pregnant women "neutral factual information and nondirective counseling" on pregnancy options including abortion.
"Congress unambiguously authorized HHS to regulate Title X eligibility" and the Volunteer State "knowingly and voluntarily accepted" the "unambiguous" terms of the grant, Judge Stephanie Dawkins Davis, nominated by President Biden, wrote for the divided panel in August.
Both President George W. Bush nominees agreed with Davis that Tennessee was unlikely to prevail on its Administrative Procedure Act (APA) claim that mandatory nondirective counseling violates Title X. But Judge Raymond Kethledge said his colleagues misread the barely two-month-old Loper Bright ruling that eliminated Chevron deference.
While Davis and Judge Julia Smith Gibbons said Loper Bright "forecloses new challenges based on specific agency actions that were already resolved" under Chevron deference, Kethledge said the panel has "no occasion to defer" to the specific agency action reversed by HHS in 2021: the agency's 1988 interpretation of Title X's Section 1008.
Back then, SCOTUS deferred to President Reagan's HHS in reading Section 1008's ban on funds for abortion "as a method of family planning" as extending to counseling or referral for abortion, but HHS spent the following decades seesawing on whether "Title X programs may or even must provide abortion counseling and referrals," Kethledge wrote.
"Just as adoption or IVF are methods of family planning for programs that refer patients to providers for those services … so too is abortion a method of family planning for programs that refer patients to abortion providers," putting the 2021 rule at odds with Section 1008, he said.
CEA's brief echoed Kethledge's reasoning, calling it "mystifying" that the panel "whistles past the grave" of Chevron by binding trial courts to "circuit-level precedent based upon" it rather than one ruling upholding a single agency action, the 1988 interpretation of Section 1008.
"The consequences would be especially felt in environmental law," in which "deference would apply to dozens of provisions in environmental statutes that have been construed as ambiguous in numerous circuit-level decisions over forty years," CEA said. It would let EPA flip-flop on the central dispute in Chevron: plant-wide or "individual smokestack permits."
The Republican attorneys general's brief led by Ohio's Dave Yost opens with a pun. The 6th Circuit panel "lopped off" Loper Bright's limitation to upholding a "specific … [sic] action" under the old framework and instead gave HHS power to adopt a reading of Title X "opposite" to what SCOTUS upheld in 1991's Rust, they said.
By undermining "stability and reliance" in judicial precedents, "the panel guarantees HHS’s power to continue the policy ping-pong that has marked Title X for 40 years" and give "all federal agencies the kind of power that Loper Bright meant to rein in," the brief says.
This is all the more likely because "our gridlocked Congress does not update statutes easily," giving federal agencies incentive to "regulate in the fog" wherever an appeals court has applied Chevron to a statute, they said.
The Republican AGs also said the panel botched the Constitution's spending clause, and the 6th Circuit's own two-year-old precedent on COVID-19 relief funding conditions outside the American Rescue Plan Act, by finding agencies can add funding conditions to statutes.
"If scores of federal agencies can attach thousands of strings to billions of federal dollars" apart from the "clear statement" judicial doctrine, without reliance on a "zombie Chevron ... that is a very big deal," they said.
The pro-life medical groups, represented by Alliance Defending Freedom, said their members stand to lose "generally available public benefits that make it possible for them to serve their patients" without a full-court rehearing.
"HHS engaged in zero statutory analysis" in response to opposing public comments and simply said prohibiting abortion referrals was "inconsistent" with its practice, they argued. The 2021 rule "violates Title X’s plain meaning" and the APA, "and no amount of deference is warranted."
Tennessee's elimination of mandatory abortion referral and counseling "complements and reinforces Title X’s text" and protects medical conscience, which HHS failed to consider before stripping funds, the groups said, showing the rule is "arbitrary and capricious."
[Breitbart] Vice President Kamala Harris is touting a mass amnesty plan that would offer fast-tracked naturalized American citizenship to the 11 to 22 million illegal aliens residing in the United States.
On Wednesday evening in an exclusive sit-down interview on Fox News Channel’s Special Report, Harris seemed to praise the U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021 — a mass amnesty plan benefiting nearly all illegal aliens in the United States.
We can be grateful it was not passed. So while the vice president is enthusiastic about the idea, we only need worry about the actuality should the Democrats take both Houses of Congress and the White House in November. Whew!
“The first bill, practically within hours of taking the oath, was a bill to fix our immigration system … we recognized from day one … it is a priority for us as a nation and for the American people,” Harris said of the U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021.
The legislation, sent to Congress by President Joe Biden immediately after being sworn into office on Jan. 20, 2021, would offer so-called “Lawful Prospective Immigrant” status to most of the millions of illegal aliens living in the United States — allowing them to hold American jobs, secure Social Security cards, and travel outside the United States and still be readmitted.
Then, after five years on Lawful Prospective Immigrant status, such illegal aliens would be able to obtain a green card. After only three years on a green card, a shortened length of time compared to current federal immigration law, such illegal aliens would be eligible to apply for naturalized American citizenship.
The mass amnesty plan provides that illegal aliens, in less than a decade, could get naturalized American citizenship and thus become eligible to vote, providing they meet other voting eligibility requirements.
Meanwhile, illegal alien farmworkers, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients, and those in the U.S. on Temporary Protected Status (TPS) would be offered green cards immediately. After only three years, these three subsets of migrants would be able to apply for naturalized American citizenship.
Though including nearly every illegal alien in the United States, the mass amnesty plan goes even further. Under one such provision, the plan would allow illegal aliens deported under former President Donald Trump to secure amnesty if they were present in the United States for at least three years before their deportation.
The plan also would remove all uses of the word “alien” in federal immigration law, replacing the term with “noncitizen.”
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
