Keeping track of realignment

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In 2011, state law mandated that the state reduce its prison population by 30,000 inmates. This has Torrance Police Chief John Neu worried about how local law enforcement will be able to handle this new caseload.

"Their current workload and ratio for supervision hovers around 200 to one. The need for local law enforcement is significant in just that aspect alone," Neu said.

Neu said that a recent look at their records showed 42 parolees in Torrance but in reality there are 74. Neu blames this discrepancy on the lack of a centralized database for inmates released from state prisons for non-serious, non-violent, and non-sexual offenses.

But Neu said some inmates can still pose a threat to public safety.

"3 percent are being assessed at ultra high risk which is a guarantee that they will re-offend within a year," Neu said.

The county has access to the state's summary of an inmates's criminal record, but there is no place to access information between counties.

In a news conference at Torrance police headquarters today, Democratic State Assemblyman Al Muratsuchi announced a new bill that will create a digital database to be shared between counties and cities. The database will include information such as mental illness and past criminal history.

Muratsuchi says they are still figuring out how much the bill would cost the state. The California state legislature will begin it's review of the bill in late April.