1. Is the board, as currently structured, financed, and administered, able to meet its statutory duties and responsibilities? How might its performance be improved?

2. The PSRB statutes allow board members to serve an unlimited number of four-year terms.  What is gained by having appointments every four years? What would be the benefits, if any, of term limits or, on the other hand, of open-ended appointment terms?

3. How does the board work with the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services staff? Do you see any need for changes in this relationship? What ongoing service system needs are the two agencies addressing together?

4. One of the projects the board mentions in its annual report is to continue to work with the Department of Information Technology to improve the quality of its acquittee database. What are the specific quality issues, and how do they affect public safety or the board's ability to carry out its duties?

1. As the board member with expertise in matters involving adult probation, do you believe that adequate probation supervision and treatment programs exist in the community for the people you would like to conditionally release? If staffing or program inadequacies or gaps exist, what are the most significant ones?

2. Some have proposed changing our laws to make it easier to civilly commit a dangerous sex offender who is on the verge of completing his prison sentence and being released into the community.  What is your opinion of such a policy change?

3. Although the average time spent under PSRB supervision is 30 years, the board must hold a hearing and review the status of everyone at least every two years.  Do you think this is too often?

4. Often it is difficult to supervise mentally ill people released in the community: ensuring that they take their medication, for example.  Some have urged enactment of an outpatient commitment law to deal with this.  What are your views on this issue?