Gavin Newsom's Early Release Law Just Set Criminal With 300-Year Sentence Free

Amy Curtis | March 13, 2026 9:35 AM

Great work, Gavin. Under a controversial 2020 law that Newsom signed, California convicts over the age of 50 who have served 20 years in prison are now eligible for parole. This includes vile criminals like David Allen Funston, a serial child rapist who was convicted in 1999 on 16 counts of kidnapping and child molestation involving multiple young children, including a five-year-old immigrant girl whom Funston dumped 50 miles from her home.

Now, another pedophile, Gregory Lee Vogelsang, is set to leave prison thanks to Newsom's law. Vogelsang molested several children in the ’90s in the Sacramento area before being convicted on dozens of felony counts. He was sentenced to 355 years in prison for his horrific crimes.

Gavin Newsom's new law grants parole to pedo with 300-year sentence https://t.co/Oj9jD66k9m pic.twitter.com/1PpJzG6L74
— New York Post (@nypost) March 12, 2026

Here's more:

The governor’s office has referred his case to full parole board for final review on March 18.

“The California Board of Parole Hearings is at it again,” the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office wrote in a Facebook post about the decision.

“They have granted early release via the Elderly Parole program to sexually violent predator Gregory Vogelsang, who molested more than five children in Citrus Heights and was sentenced to over 300 years in prison for his crimes. And he is headed to a neighborhood near you.”

The sheriff’s office went on to state that the state’s “elderly parole system is broken.”
Under the previous rules, inmates were eligible for elder parole only after serving at least 25 years of their sentence and reaching age 60.
But at the start of 2021, the law was loosened in an effort to ease prison overcrowding, allowing inmates to apply for parole after serving just 20 years once they turn 50.

More children will be harmed by this, and Newsom doesn't care.

Time to stop the madness. @CAgovernor DEMAND resignations. DEMAND a special legislative session to reverse this insane law. Exclude sex offenders from elderly parole.

Let’s put the safety of children and our families above sex offenders. https://t.co/RF6cyoVisH
— Schubert Strategies (@schubertstrat) March 12, 2026

See? Newsom's hands are not "tied." He could call a special session to make changes to this. But he won't, because this is who Democrats are. They're the party that supports criminals, sets them loose in our communities, and pretends they're the good guys.

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