In this report for California Connected, a weekly news magazine broadcast on public television stations throughout California, producer and CIR associate reporter Patricia Steele investigates how well California's Sexually Violent Predators law works and whether the public is really protected. Justice Department statistics show that there are 80,000 high risk sex offenders living in California, yet the SVP law deals with just four hundred, putting them in Atascadero State Hospital where treatment costs are several times higher than the cost to house prison inmates. While none of the 400 have ever been released from the rehabilitation program, which has cost the state half a billion dollars since its beginning 7 years ago, more than 30,000 of California's high risk sex offenders are officially missing and there are no funds to locate or track them. This is a CIR-assisted report.