Subject: Re: SC/Malloy
From: "Joshua Alcorn" <[email-masked]>
To: "Hunter Biden" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2016 07:48:17 -0400

I spoke with Patty at length about this. The ICAC team Beau had in DE did a
lot of really great work. I don't have the statistics broken out by unit,
but Beau's Child Predator Task Force (of which his ICAC team was a big
part) investigated hundreds of predators, convicted 214 of them and took
129 kids out of unsafe situations (stats as of 12/31/14). That's in a state
of about 900,000 people. Imagine scaling that up to a state with 4.8m
people. Beau's numbers would be a heck of a lot less without the ICAC team
(which we'll see for sure this year, as Denn has cut the ICAC team by 2/3.
Abby Layton just left the unit because she didn't want to be it's head as
it crashed and burned).

As for how to handle? I think you could call Malloy and just say, look, the
ICAC unit Beau had in DE did really incredible work. It would have done
even more if every state AG had bought in to the federal program. It really
works, and creating one without funding it is a waste of time (as we're
seeing in DE now that Matt has taken 2/3 of the staff and reassigned them).
It's osmething that was important to Beau and is important to the
Foundation and to you.

That's my suggestion. If you don't feel comfortable with it, perhaps just
respond to Camille and say, we're dealing with a similar issue in DE now
and are focused on our state before we get involved elsewhere.

Happy to talk more if you wish.

On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 5:24 AM, Joshua Alcorn <[email-masked]> wrote:

> Fees on felons! Imagine the argument B and Ashley would have had about
> this.
> I'll talk to Patty today. You know Malloy far better than I do, but I
> always thought he was a bit more reasonable than some of the other entitled
> electeds in early states. This is exactly the sort of thing the BBF will be
> fighting against in a few years when we've gone national. Right now Patty
> and I are working to keep the mandatory reporting law in DE from being
> weakened - we need victories where we can.
> Regarding this bill specifically, at least in DE, Denn undid ICAC by
> himself. Wonder what the SC AG things about this?
> Will circle back with some bullet points for you on ICAC and what we did
> in DE while it was running strong. Also worth noting, D2L's based in SC.
> Wonder what they're doing to push back on this.
>
> /ja
> 302-598-1885 (cell)
>
> Sent from my iPhone, which is responsible for any typos.
>
> On Jun 2, 2016, at 1:16 AM, Hunter Biden <[email-masked]>
> wrote:
>
> How do you and patty feel about how I should address this
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> *From:* Camille Cooper <[email-masked]>
> *Date:* June 1, 2016 at 10:01:36 PM GMT+2
> *To:* [email-masked]
> *Subject:* *SC/Malloy*
>
> Hunter,
>
> You’re the best. Thank you.
>
> Here is the story in the Herald:
>
> http://www.heraldonline.com/news/state/south-carolina/article80813252.html
>
> Yesterday the Senate with Sen Malloy taking the lead, gutted the revenue
> stream attached to the bill HB 4763. Alicia’s Law
>
> https://legiscan.com/SC/bill/H4763/2015
>
> He said it was on “principle” about fees on felons. However he has let
> other bills with felony fees through over the years so this seems like
> posturing.( I’d guess that because the House sponsor (Tommy Pope) is a
> republican running for Governor that they don’t want to give him this as a
> win and the real fight is political)
>
> The bill establishes a fund for the ICAC and funds it thru a 6.1% increase
> in fees. 60% goes to the ICAC at the AG’s office and 40% goes to local ICAC
> affiliate police agencies across the state.
>
> The bill will receive a “non-concur’ vote in the House today which will
> send it to conference (hopefully).
>
> The Speaker and the President Pro Tem pick the conferees. We need 4 out of
> 6 votes to pass the House version out of conference.
>
> Malloy just seems dug in. Not sure if he is carrying water for the Dem
> Caucus on this but if the SC Dems ever want to be the majority then doing
> this seems like a bad strategy.
>
> At this point it’s too late to change the funding stream. Conferees either
> have to vote the House version out with the fees or the Senate version out
> with the fund and no money. Or they could kill it.
>
> Maybe you could tell Malloy to agree to House fee for one year to get ICAC
> going and that we’ll work with him next year and let him sponsor a swap out
> for a different funding stream. Thats probably as close as we can get to a
> win-win.
>
> Thanks again for calling and helping. I hope your having fun in Europe. I
> love Europe.
>
> Camille
>
>
>

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Joshua Alcorn
302/598.1885 (cell