The Attorney General shall maintain, upon appropriation of funds by the Legislature, a statewide Sexual Predator Apprehension Team force. The Sexual Predator Apprehension Team force shall be comprised of special agent teams throughout California. The teams shall focus on repeat sex offenders, and perform the following activities:
(a) Coordinate state and local investigative resources to apprehend high risk sex offenders and persons required to register under Section 290 who violate the law or conditions of probation or parole.
(b) Target and monitor chronic repeat violent sex offenders before the commission of additional sexual offenses.
(c) Develop profiles in unsolved sexual assault cases.
(Amended by Stats. 2012, Ch. 867, Sec. 27. (SB 1144) Effective January 1, 2013.)
Last modified: October 25, 2018