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Special Committee on Placement of Sex Offenders

Co-Chairs: Rep. Garey Bies and Rep. Scott Suder
Legislative Council Staff: Don Salm and Anne Sappenfield
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The special committee is directed to study current policies and practices of the Department of Corrections relating to placement of persons who have been convicted of a sex offense in the community.  The special committee shall also review current statutes relating to placement of sex offenders and determine whether additional statutory requirements on where such offenders may be placed would enhance public safety.  The special committee shall also study the effect of placing additional statutory requirements on the ability to place offenders and the impact of additional requirements on urban and rural areas of Wisconsin.

Report to the Legislature
  • Report to the Legislature 2007-08, Special Committee on Placement of Sex Offenders (May 21, 2007)
  • 2007 Assembly Bill 332
Recommendation to the Joint Legislative Council (May 10, 2007)
  • Proposed Report to the Legislature 2007-08, Special Committee on Placement of Sex Offenders (April 27, 2007)
  • LRB-2293/2, relating to the sex offender registry, child safety zones, disclosure of sexually violent person information to law enforcement, and sex offender information to post-secondary educational institutions
February 23, 2007 Mail Ballot
  • WLC: 0092/1, relating to disclosure of information regarding sexually violent persons, creating a definition of "high-risk sex offender," child safety zones, sex offender registry requirements, the sex offender registry website, and disclosure of sex offender registry and global positioning system tracking information to postsecondary educational institutions
February 15, 2007 Meeting
  • WLC: 0071/1, relating to the sex offender website (January 31, 2007)
  • WLC: 0072/1, relating to requiring persons registered as sex offenders to register every 6 months in person and have a photograph taken (January 31, 2007)
  • WLC: 0076/1, relating to additional information on department of corrections Internet site regarding sex offenders (February 5, 2007)
  • WLC: 0077/1, relating to placement of sexually violent person in municipality of residence (February 5, 2007)
  • WLC: 0079/1, relating to placement in Huber facility (February 2, 2007)
  • WLC: 0080/1, relating to release of additional information to law enforcement under ch. 51 (February 6, 2007)
  • WLC: 0082/1, relating to child safety zones (February 6, 2007)
  • WLC: 0083/1, relating to providing sex offender registry information to the director of security of a postsecondary educational institution in a community where a sex offender is residing, is employed, or is attending school (February 6, 2007)
  • WLC: 0084/1, relating to creating definitions of "high-risk sex offender" and "predatory" (February 6, 2007)
  • WLC: 0085/1, relating to providing information obtained through the global positioning tracking system to the director of security for a postsecondary educational institution (February 6, 2007)
  • WLC: 0086/1, relating to information provided by a person required to register as a sex offender (February 7, 2007)
  • Letter from Steve Olson, Alderman, Dist. 1, City of Franklin (February 5, 2007)
  • Pamphlet, An Overview of Sex Offender Management, Center for Sex Offender Management (July 2002)
  • Report, Myths and Facts About Sex Offenders, Center for Sex Offender Management (August 2000)
  • Report, Recidivism of Sex Offenders, Center for Sex Offender Management (May 2001)
  • Letter to Mary Anne Snyder, Executive Director, Children's Trust Fund, from Co-Chair Suder and Co-Chair Bies (February 15, 2007)
January 4, 2007 Meeting
  • Memo No. 4, Options for Legislation (December 20, 2006; Revised December 26, 2006)
  • Letter, to Co-Chair Bies and Co-Chair Suder from Public Member Larry Rickard (December 21, 2006)
  • Handout, from Mary Anne Snyder, Executive Director, and Norma Sampson, Communications Director, Children’s Trust Fund
  • Memorandum, from Steve Watters, Sand Ridge Secure Treatment Center (January 4, 2007)
  • Presentation, by Deb McCulloch, MMSW, Community Services Director (January 4, 2007)
  • Presentation, by Melissa Roberts, Director of Sex Offender Programs, Department of Corrections (DOC)
    • Handout, Sex Offender Community Notification Meeting, from Melissa Roberts, DOC
    • Handout, Sex Offender Community Notification: Assessing the Impact in Wisconsin, from Melissa Roberts, DOC
November 30, 2006 Meeting
  • Response to initial committee meeting, from Susan Eberhard, committee member (September 27, 2006)
  • Letter, from Representative Mary Williams, to Representative Garey Bies and Representative Scott Suder, Co-Chairs, Special Committee on Placement of Sex Offenders (September 21, 2006)
  • Memo No. 2, Suggestions for Consideration by the Special Committee (November 13, 2006)
  • Memo No. 3, GPS Tracking and Exclusion Zones Under 2005 Wisconsin Act 431 (November 21, 2006)
  • Memorandum, 2006 National Symposium on Sex Offender Management and Accountability, from Public Member Mel Flanagan, Milwaukee Circuit Court Branch 4 (October 24, 2006)
  • Report, Level Three Sex Offenders Residential Placement Issues, 2003 Report to the Legislature, Minnesota Department of Corrections (January 2003)
  • Report, The Impact of Residency Restrictions on Sex Offenders and Correctional Management Practices:  A Literature Review, California State Library (August 2006)
  • The Sex Offender Registration and Notification Provisions, from the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006 (P.L. 109-248)
  • Wisconsin Sex Offender Registration and Community Notification, Working Together to Make a Difference; A Manual for Law Enforcement, DOC (April 2004)
  • Presentation, Housing of Sex Offenders in Wisconsin, Citizens for a Safe Wisconsin, Inc. (November 30, 2006)
September 14, 2006 Meeting
  • Memo No. 1, Current Statutes Relating to Placement of Sex Offenders and Persons Committed Under ch. 980, Stats., in Residential Areas (September 5, 2006)
  • Presentation, Wisconsin's Sexually Violent Persons Law, Chapter 980, by Steve Watters, Director, Sand Ridge Secure Treatment Center (September 14, 2006)
  • Sex Offender Residence Restrictions, distributed by Mike Murray, Policy Specialist, Wisconsin Coalition Against Sexual Assault, Inc. (undated)
  • Handout, Iowa County Attorneys Association Statement on Sex Offender Residency Restrictions in Iowa, distributed by Mike Murray, Policy Specialist, Wisconsin Coalition Against Sexual Assault, Inc. (January 20, 2006)
  • Handout, Facts About Adult Sex Offenders, distributed by Mike Murray, Policy Specialist, Wisconsin Coalition Against Sexual Assault, Inc. (undated)
  • Press Release, National Sexual Offender Treatment/Assault Prevention Group Files Brief with the Supreme Court in Opposition to Sex Offender Residency Restrictions Claiming that Such Laws Harm Children, distributed by Mike Murray, Policy Specialist, Wisconsin Coalition Against Sexual Assault, Inc. (November 3, 2005)
  • Testimony, to Nebraska Judiciary Committee by Elizabeth Barnhill, Iowa Coalition Against Sexual Assault, distributed by Mike Murray, Policy Specialist, Wisconsin Coalition Against Sexual Assault, Inc. (February 16, 2006)