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Individual named gillton petri, a registered sex offender, a convicted rapist was released as a result of a paper screening. the process that we're talking about. in 2007, within four days, he kidnapped, raped and murdered a 15-year-old girl named alicea gomez. that brought this whole issue to the attention of the department of mental health. for reaps of economic expediency they ignored it and continue to release these predators on to our streets in violation of the law as a result of these paper screenings and they've done this 17,000 times. >> mike: 17 years ago polly was abducted and murde...

They're not doing that in california. in violation of the law, they're simply doing a paper screening, in other words, reviewing records by one individual from the department of mental health and making their-- basing their evaluation on that. as a result of paper screenings, 17,000 predators have been put back on the streets of california. >> mike: so 17,000, you know, that's more than twice the number of people who lived, or who live in my hometown where i grow up in arkansas, 17,000, a lot of people out on the streets and these are people that shouldn't be there. so, how did john albert gar...