Under Washington's SVP Law, Where No Petition Was Filed, Milloy, December 2003, WSIPP - Washington State Institute for Public Policy evaluation of sex offenders (n = 89) released to the community between July 1990 and July 1996 who were referred by the Washington Department of Corrections as meeting the filing standards for civil commitment petitions pursuant to Washington's Sexually Violent Predator stature under the 1990 Community Protection Act. The evaluation concluded that individuals in this group have a high risk of subsequent conviction for a felony offense, particularly a new against-person offense, a category that includes sex offenses.