California parole board will reconsider its decision in Gregory Vogelsang case
Hours after an emotional hearing Wednesday, California’s Board of Parole Hearings voted to reconsider whether a man convicted of molesting children in the 1990s should be granted parole.
Gregory Lee Vogelsang was granted parole in November 2025 after serving 27 years of a 355-years-to-life sentence. The 57-year-old became eligible under the state’s Elderly Parole Program, which has drawn criticism from law enforcement and Republican legislators for being too lenient.
According to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, a rescission hearing is expected to be scheduled between July and September.
“The purpose of a rescission hearing is to evaluate if a fundamental error was committed by the granting panel that may indicate that a grant of parole was improper,” CDCR spokesperson Emily Humpal wrote in an email.
The board could also have affirmed the original decision or vacated it and ordered a new hearing.
Vogelsang was convicted in August 1999 of more than two dozen counts of child molestation and kidnapping involving five boys in the Sacramento area. Several victims were family friends or relatives.
