PHOENIX -- A new board to study treatment of sex offenders goes live next month with an eye on changing laws to reduce recidivism.

But no one at the press conference Tuesday to publicize the legislation that created the panel had any data on what the current rate is for reoffending by sex offenders. So how would they measure success?

"I would say that is undetermined at this time," said Dr. Brecken Blades, a forensic psychologist who was part of the impetus for the panel. "Success would be we can get a board together and start having these conversations, these difficult standards, and create standards and guidelines that can then be implemented within people on supervision and treatment.''

All that, in turn, goes to the question of whether sex offenders can be rehabilitated.

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