CHAPTER 5.5. Sex Offenders

Chapter 5.5 heading added by Stats. 2006, Ch. 337, Sec. 10.

§§ 290–294 · 53 sections

§ 290 (a) Sections 290 to 290.024, inclusive, shall be known, and may be cited, as the Sex Offender Registration Act. All references to “the Act” in those sections…
§ 290.001 Every person who has ever been adjudicated a sexually violent predator, as defined in Section 6600 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, shall register in…
§ 290.002 Persons required to register in their state of residence who are out-of-state residents employed, or carrying on a vocation in California on a full-time or…
§ 290.003 Any person who, since July 1, 1944, has been or hereafter is released, discharged, or paroled from a penal institution where he or she was confined because of…
§ 290.004 Any person who, since July 1, 1944, has been or hereafter is determined to be a mentally disordered sex offender under Article 1 (commencing with Section 6300)…
§ 290.005 The following persons shall register in accordance with the Act: (a) Except as provided in subdivision (c) or (d), any person who, since July 1, 1944, has…
§ 290.006 (a) Any person ordered by any court to register pursuant to the act, who is not required to register pursuant to Section 290, shall so register, if the court…
§ 290.007 A person required to register pursuant to any provision of the Act shall register in accordance with the Act, regardless of whether the person’s conviction has…
§ 290.008 (a) Any person who, on or after January 1, 1986, is discharged or paroled from the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to the custody of which they…
§ 290.009 Any person required to register under the Act who is enrolled as a student or is an employee or carries on a vocation, with or without compensation, at an…
§ 290.010 If the person who is registering has more than one residence address at which he or she regularly resides, he or she shall register in accordance with the Act…
§ 290.011 Every person who is required to register pursuant to the act who is living as a transient shall be required to register for the rest of his or her life as…
§ 290.012 (a) Beginning on his or her first birthday following registration or change of address, the person shall be required to register annually, within five working…
§ 290.013 (a) A person who was last registered at a residence address pursuant to the Act who changes his or her residence address, whether within the jurisdiction in…
§ 290.014 (a) If any person who is required to register pursuant to the Act changes his or her name, the person shall inform, in person, the law enforcement agency or…
§ 290.015 (a) A person who is subject to the Act shall register, or reregister if he or she has previously registered, upon release from incarceration, placement,…
§ 290.016 (a) On or after January 1, 1998, upon incarceration, placement, or commitment, or prior to release on probation, any person who is required to register under…
§ 290.017 (a) Any person who is released, discharged, or paroled from a jail, state or federal prison, school, road camp, or other institution where he or she was…
§ 290.018 (a) A person who is required to register under the Act based on a misdemeanor conviction or juvenile adjudication who willfully violates any requirement of the…
§ 290.019 (a) Notwithstanding any other section in the Act, a person who was convicted before January 1, 1976, under subdivision (a) of Section 286, or former Section…
§ 290.020 In any case in which a person who would be required to register pursuant to the Act for a felony conviction is to be temporarily sent outside the institution…
§ 290.021 Except as otherwise provided by law, the statements, photographs, and fingerprints required by the Act shall not be open to inspection by the public or by any…
§ 290.022 On or before July 1, 2010, the Department of Justice shall renovate the VCIN to do the following: (1) Correct all software deficiencies affecting data…
§ 290.023 The registration provisions of the Act are applicable to every person described in the Act, without regard to when his or her crime or crimes were committed or…
§ 290.024 For purposes of this chapter: (a) A person who is convicted of a felony on or after January 1, 2017, requiring registration pursuant to the Act, shall register…
§ 290.01 (a) (1) Commencing October 28, 2002, every person required to register pursuant to Sections 290 to 290.009, inclusive, of the Sex Offender Registration Act who…
§ 290.02 (a) Notwithstanding any other law, the Department of Justice shall identify the names of persons required to register pursuant to Section 290 from a list of…
§ 290.03 (a) The Legislature finds and declares that a comprehensive system of risk assessment, supervision, monitoring and containment for registered sex offenders…
§ 290.04 (a) (1) The sex offender risk assessment tools authorized by this section for use with selected populations shall be known, with respect to each population, as…
§ 290.05 (a) The SARATSO Training Committee shall be comprised of a representative of the State Department of State Hospitals, a representative of the Department of…
§ 290.06 The static SARATSO, as set forth in Section 290.04, shall be administered as follows: (a) (1) The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation shall assess…
§ 290.07 Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a person authorized by statute to administer the State Authorized Risk Assessment Tool for Sex Offenders (SARATSO)…
§ 290.08 Every district attorney’s office and the Department of Justice shall retain records relating to a person convicted of an offense for which registration is…
§ 290.09 On or before July 2012, the SARATSO dynamic tool and the SARATSO future violence tool, as set forth in Section 290.04, shall be administered as follows: (a)…
§ 290.3 (a) Every person who is convicted of any offense specified in subdivision (c) of Section 290 shall, in addition to any imprisonment or fine, or both, imposed…
§ 290.4 (a) The department shall operate a service through which members of the public may provide a list of at least six persons on a form approved by the Department…
§ 290.45 (a) (1) Notwithstanding any other law, and except as provided in paragraph (2), any designated law enforcement entity may provide information to the public…
§ 290.46 (a) (1) On or before the dates specified in this section, the Department of Justice shall make available information concerning persons who are required to…
§ 290.47 The Department of Justice shall record the address at which a registered sex offender resides with a unique identifier for the address. The information for…
§ 290.5 (a) (1) A person who is required to register pursuant to Section 290 and who is a tier one or tier two offender may file a petition in the superior court in…
§ 290.6 (a) Fifteen days before the scheduled release date of a person described in subdivision (b), the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation shall provide to…
§ 290.7 The Department of Corrections shall provide samples of blood and saliva taken from a prison inmate pursuant to the DNA and Forensic Identification Data Base…
§ 290.8 Effective January 1, 1999, any local law enforcement agency that does not register sex offenders during regular daytime business hours on a daily basis,…
§ 290.85 (a) Every person released on probation or parole who is required to register as a sex offender, pursuant to Section 290, shall provide proof of registration to…
§ 290.9 Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any state or local governmental agency shall, upon written request, provide to the Department of Justice the…
§ 290.95 (a) Every person required to register under Section 290, who applies for or accepts a position as an employee or volunteer with any person, group, or…
§ 291 Every sheriff, chief of police, or the Commissioner of the California Highway Patrol, upon the arrest for any of the offenses enumerated in Section 290,…
§ 291.1 Every sheriff or chief of police, or Commissioner of the California Highway Patrol, upon the arrest for any of the offenses enumerated in Section 290 or…
§ 291.5 Every sheriff or chief of police, upon the arrest for any of the offenses enumerated in Section 290 or in subdivision (1) of Section 261 of any teacher or…
§ 292 It is the intention of the Legislature in enacting this section to clarify that for the purposes of subdivisions (b) and (c) of Section 12 of Article I of the…
§ 293 (a) An employee of a law enforcement agency who personally receives a report from a person, alleging that the person making the report has been the victim of a…
§ 293.5 (a) Except as provided in Chapter 10 (commencing with Section 1054) of Part 2 of Title 7, or for cases in which the alleged victim of a sex offense, as…
§ 294 (a) Upon conviction of any person for a violation of Section 273a, 273d, 288.5, 311.2, 311.3, or 647.6, the court may, in addition to any other penalty or…