If the request is approved, Rambold must register as a sex offender in California, comply with court conditions of release and wear a GPS monitor for a time, Beck said.

Montana Board of Pardons and Parole Executive Director Kristy Cobban said Rambold was denied parole in 2016 so he could complete sex offender treatment. He returned in 2017 after completing the treatment and submitted a plan to be paroled to California, Cobban said.

If California does not want to supervise him, he will have to come before the board again and have a new parole plan approved, Cobban said.

Typically, California determines whether the state has the resources to supervise a parolee from another state, Cobban said. If paroled, Rambold must enroll in chemical dependency counseling and sex offender treatment and must stay away from casinos and places where alcohol is the main item of sale, Cobban said.

The VINE network, which provides information about an offender's custody status and location in real time, sent out notifications about Rambold's parole hearing in December. The VINE network made four successful delivers by email and four successful deliveries by text, but two phone messages did not get delivered, Beck said. It is not clear who the phone numbers belonged to, Beck said.