Parole commissioners meet to review sex offenders

Thursday, Dec. 23, 1999 | 9:54 a.m.

The Nevada Legislature voted to require that sex offenders who are in any way likely to repeat be monitored for life once they are paroled from prison.

The proposed administrative regulations would begin the process of setting up lifetime supervision at least four months before an inmate's scheduled release from prison.

The parole board would hold a hearing to establish the conditions of lifetime supervision. The regulations give the panel authority over those conditions as well as the power to modify parole terms for sex offenders.

Officials aren't estimating how many offenders will be ordered to remain under supervision once released, or how many of them will be returned to the board for some violation of the conditions of their parole.

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