SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - The kidnapping ordeal of Jaycee Dugard has prompted legislation to close a loophole in how the state treats out-of-state sex offenders who serve their parole in California.
A bill the Senate sent to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Friday would require the state to conduct psychological risk assessments of sex offenders who are paroled by the federal government or other states.
Such risk assessments are already routinely required before California inmates are released.
Dugard's suspected kidnapper, Phillip Garrido, served time in federal and Nevada prisons, but was supervised by California parole agents after he moved to Antioch in the San Francisco Bay area.
The bill, SB1221 by Sen. Mark DeSaulnier, a Democrat from nearby Concord, was sent to the governor on a unanimous vote.