CFC OKLAHOMA

We need a serious "open debate" in the Senate in regards to this subject. In the long run it will cost Oklahoma tax payers millions in new taxes for a law that protects no one but endangers everyone. Also, the predators are hiding in the registries. 78% in Tier III which should only reflect Oklahoma's recidivism rate/the most dangerous offenders. Which is less than 10%.

Please read the article and look at the charts "Federal Domestic Spending Bill Cuts Crime Funding Program by 67 Percent," at the web site below.
www.cfcoklahoma.org


Oklahoma Cost of Implementing SORNA ……..$ 5,867,138
Oklahoma Byrne Money 2006……………………………….$2,790,472
Oklahoma 10 percent of Byrne money……………………..$279,000
Oklahoma 67% Byrne cut leaves 33% or............$92,085

These figures do NOT take into account these ever increasing costs.


* New personnel
* Software, including installation and maintenance
* Additional jail and prison space
* Court and administrative costs
* Law enforcement costs
* Legislative costs related to adopting, and crafting state law



Virginia determined that the first year of compliance with the registry aspect of SORNA would cost more than $12
million.
* The first year of implementing SORNA would cost the Commonwealth of Virginia $12,497,000.

* The yearly annual cost of SORNA would be $8,887,000. Adjusted with a 3.5 percent yearly inflation rate,4 Virginia
would be paying more than $10 million by 2014.

*If Virginia chose to comply with SORNA, the state would spend $12,097,000 more than it would if it chose not to

implement SORNA and forfeit 10 percent of its yearly Byrne grant, a loss totaling approximately $400,000

Office of Justice Programs, "JAG State Allocations," April 23, 2008. www.ojp.usdoj.gov/BJA/grant/07JAGstateallocations.pdf
Lawmakers in Virginia asked experts to guess how much taxpayers would spend on the changes. The Virginia Department of Planning and Budget decided the first year would cost more than $12 million. Virginia only stood to lose about $400,000 in U.S. grant money each year, according to the department's documents.

So let me get this straight, 12 million is the cost of compliance for the first year
.
The 10% loss of revenue is 400,000.00 per year.
Lets do the math.

12 mil divided by the loss of 400,000.00 dollars per year, means they could go 30 years of non compliance before they would incur the total first year cost of implementation .

No brainer here in these hard times we are all enduring!

Randy Lopp, treatment subcommittee chairman of the Oklahoma Sex Offender Management Team says it best, "Most people who know anything about this are frustrated. It is just not helpful -- the laws as they are now,"

''I think if the general public understood the research, they would be willing to back the legislators to change the laws to make more sense and to protect children, because the laws as they are written are not protecting children," he said. "They are doing more harm than good.''


Using 2006 figures and the Byrne cut by President Bush.

www.justicepolicy.org/images/upload/08-08_FAC_SORNACosts_JJ.pdf
Oklahoma:

The 10% loss of revenue is per year. (Not counting bush's 67 percent cut of bryne money, Just for arguments sake).
Lets do the math.

$279,000 mil divided by cost to tax payers each per year,$ 5,867,000 (means Oklahoma could go 21 years of non compliance before they would incur the total first year cost of implementation .

Calculating in the 67% Byrne cut: $5,867,000 divided by 92,000 will come to 63.77 YEARS of non compliance before they would incur the total first year cost of implementation


These figures do NOT take into account these ever increasing costs, mentioned above.