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Iowa lawmakers get price-tag for serious sex offender monitoring

By Douglas A. Berman

As detailed in this local article, headlined "Tracking Iowa sex offenders to cost millions," the price of expanded monitoring of sex offenders is starting to come into focus for legislators in at least one state. Here are the details: Iowa lawmakers received new evidence Tuesday that the cost and consequences of tracking sex offenders in the next decade will be at least $30 million more than is now spent, unless officials find better ways to curb costs while guarding public safety. A report from Iowa?s Division of Juvenile and Justice Planning shows that special, post-prison sentences for sex offenders will increase parole caseloads in Iowa by more than 50 percent by 2020.  An estimated 2,300 additional sex offenders will have to be monitored for 10 years or life, according to an Iowa law passed in 2005...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on February 02, 2011 (boomark / email).