Gregory Lee Vogelsang, a 57-year-old a convicted pedophile who was sentenced to 355 years to life in prison for molesting several children in the 1990s, has been granted parole under a controversial California law signed by Governor Gavin Newsom in 2020. The law allows for parole review of inmates aged 50 and older who have served at least 20 years in prison, in an effort to ease prison overcrowding. David Allen Funston, another convicted child molester, was also granted early release despite admitting he still experiences pedophilic urges. Now Assemblyman Tom Lackey and Assemblyman Josh Hoover have introduced legislation to stop the early release of serial child molesters under California’s Elderly Parole Program. Both offenders were granted release under a law signed by Governor Newsom that lowered the eligibility age for elderly parole to 50 years old. Lackey and Hoover’s Bill 2570 would raise the minimum age for elderly parole eligibility to 65.