Jul. 18, 2025
Lawsuit challenges Female Sex Offender Risk Assessment tool
A Sacramento lawsuit challenges the Female Sex Offender Risk Assessment tool's validity, claiming it's unvalidated, causing unfair restrictions and homelessness for low-risk female parolees.
A complaint filed in Sacramento claims a tool used to evaluate female sex offenders is invalid and should not be used.
Similar tools are widely utilized in California and elsewhere to determine how likely male sex offenders are to commit new crimes if released and how closely they should be supervised. But the Alliance for Constitutional Sex Offense Laws argued that women reoffend at such low rates they cannot be statistically measured with accuracy.
The petition challe...
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