California GOP launches petition targeting Newsom parole board over sex offenders

By Fox News · Fox News

EXCLUSIVE: The California Republican Party has launched a new petition dubbed "Stop Gavin’s Predators," aiming to highlight cases of convicted sex offenders granted parole in the state and the governor-appointed Board of Parole Hearings members involved in those decisions. The website, StopGavinsPredators.com, includes the petition along with information about parole board members and several offenders released during Gov. Gavin Newsom's tenure as California’s chief executive. The Board of Parole Hearings includes 21 commissioners who were appointed by Newsom and confirmed by the state Senate. The current commissioners were each appointed between 2021 and 2024. Newsom, who is term-limited and set to leave office in January 2027, has served as governor since 2019. "The Board of Parole Hearings is composed of 21 full-time commissioners who are appointed by the Governor and subject to confirmation by the California Senate. Commissioners are appointed to staggered three-year terms," the website reads. CALIFORNIA SERIAL CHILD RAPIST GRANTED PAROLE ADMITTED HAVING PEDOPHILIC FANTASIES AS RECENTLY AS 2021 "The commissioners conduct parole suitability hearings and associated parole reconsideration and rescission hearings for adult persons under the jurisdiction of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation," it continues. "They also conduct consultations with persons who are eligible for parole suitability hearings." The website also features a clip showing California Republican lawmakers calling for the removal of parole board members, arguing that certain release decisions threaten public safety. The commissioners are Robert Barton, Patricia Cassady, Kevin Chappell, Dianne Dobbs, Julie Garland, Gilbert Infante, Teal Kozel, David Long, Michele Minor, William Muniz, David Ndudim, Kathleen O’Meara, Catherine Purcell, Michael Ruff, Rosalind Sargent-Burns, Neil Schneider, Excel Sharrieff, Emily Sheffield, Troy Taira, Mary Thornton and Jack Weiss. The petition…