[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 32 (Friday, March 4, 2011)]
[Senate]
[Page S1263]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        PETITIONS AND MEMORIALS

  The following petition or memorial was laid before the Senate and was 
referred or ordered to lie on the table as indicated:

       POM-4. A joint memorial adopted by the Legislature of the 
     State of Washington relative to adult offender supervision; 
     to the Committee on the Judiciary.

                     Senate Joint Memorial No. 8026

       Whereas, the state of Washington is an active and 
     participating member of the Interstate Commission for Adult 
     Offender Supervision and has supported the terms of the 
     Interstate Compact since 1937; and
       Whereas, the state of Washington suffered a grievous loss 
     when four police officers were killed by an offender under 
     the supervision of the state who had been transferred to 
     Washington state under the terms of the Interstate Compact; 
     and
       Whereas, the public safety of the citizens of the state of 
     Washington are of the utmost concern and importance to this 
     body; and
       Whereas, the state of Washington has grave concerns about 
     continuing to operate under the terms of the Interstate 
     Compact without the tools to adequately protect its citizens; 
     and
       Whereas, the existing rules and processes in the Interstate 
     Compact do not provide the receiving state with sufficient 
     information and authority to adequately supervise and address 
     the violative behavior of an offender transferred to the 
     receiving state under the terms of the compact;
       Now therefore, your Memorialists respectfully pray that the 
     Interstate Commission for Adult Offender Supervision 
     immediately initiate its emergency rule-making process to 
     consider and adopt rule amendments that will provide the 
     receiving state with all information known to the sending 
     state about the criminal history and behavior of an offender 
     whose transfer is sought, and to vest the receiving state 
     with the authority to determine when the receiving state can 
     no longer safely supervise an offender and the offender must 
     be returned to the sending state or, in the alternative, that 
     these issues be addressed through federal legislation.
       Be it resolved, That copies of this Memorial be immediately 
     transmitted to the Honorable Barack Obama, President of the 
     United States, the Executive Director and Chairperson of the 
     Interstate commission for Adult Offender Supervision, the 
     President of the United States Senate, the Speaker of the 
     House of Representatives, and each member of Congress from 
     the State of Washington.

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