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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) — Fresno County leaders are acrophobic astir the accrued fig of stateless radical connected probation and parole.
Fresno County Supervisor said determination are 816 unsheltered stateless radical successful Fresno County connected probation and parole.
He said the colonisation of unsheltered homelessness has accrued by 10% successful the past 2 years.
According to 1 constituent successful time, a number conducted by The Fresno Madera Continuum of Care, the nonstop determination of implicit 500 stateless radical is unknown.
"Sometimes these radical are transient and are connected the streets and aren't reporting backmost to probation oregon parole officers. And so, they autumn into that category, too. So really, arsenic galore arsenic 13 to 1400 of the stateless colonisation could beryllium nether a probation oregon parole," Fresno County Supervisor Nathan Magsig said.
He called retired Governor Gavin Newsom for placing the blasted connected the county.
"The politician and the legislature are truly putting a batch of the blasted of the stateless situation connected cities and counties," Magsig said.
While Assembly Bill 109 aims to trim authorities situation populations, Magsig questions whether oregon not it's an effectual solution.
"As the authorities of California continues to adjacent situation beds, they're not giving capable resources to america astatine the section level, and galore of these formerly incarcerated radical are ending up retired connected the streets," Magsig said.
Chief Kirk Haynes with the Fresno County Probation Department is moving intimately with Magsig to tackle the problem.
"We bash supply services, transitional lodging services that we supply for a batch of our people. But, you know, galore don't instrumentality vantage of the accidental due to the fact that attached with that are requirements that you spell to attraction and those kinds of things arsenic well," Haynes said.
He says his section has felt the effects of AB109.
"We person radical who person been released from authorities situation usually earlier 109, they would person been supervised by authorities parole, but present probation departments are liable for caring for those radical successful the supervision that they have," Haynes said.
Sheriff John Zanoni said determination needs to beryllium much accountability for radical connected parole.
"You get an accidental for cause treatment, you get an accidental for intelligence wellness treatment, but if you can't get with the programme and obey the laws and get done the treatment, determination has to beryllium a consequence," Zanoni said.
He said that without authorities backing to enforce voter-approved Prop 36, the stateless contented volition not improve.
"Our politician is failing to, oregon I should say, refusing to money it. Well, you can't person it some ways. If you privation america to woody with homelessness. If you privation america to enforce the instrumentality and region immoderate of these issues, we person to person immoderate funding," Zanoni said.
