California Penal Code CHAPTER 5.5 - Sex Offenders

• Section 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...
• Section 290.a.
  (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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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 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...
• Section 290.006.
  (a) Any person ordered by any court to register pursuant to the Act for any offense not included specifically in subdivision (c) of Section 290, shall...
• Section 290.006.a.
  (a) Any person ordered by any court to register pursuant to the Act for any offense not included specifically in subdivision (c) of Section 290, shall...
• Section 290.007.
  Any 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 290.008.a.
  (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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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 days...
• Section 290.013.
  (a) Any person who was last registered at a residence address pursuant to the Act who changes his or her residence address, whether within the jurisdiction...
• Section 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...
• Section 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, commitment,...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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 Section 288a,...
• 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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 integrity and...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 290.01.a.
  (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 is enrolled...
• Section 290.02.a.
  (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...
• Section 290.03.
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that a comprehensive system of risk assessment, supervision, monitoring and containment for registered sex offenders residing in California communities is...
• Section 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 the...
• Section 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 Corrections and...
• Section 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 every eligible person who...
• Section 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) and trained...
• Section 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 required...
• Section 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...
• Section 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,...
• Section 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...
• Section 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 about a person...
• Section 290.45.a.
  (a) (1) Notwithstanding any other law, and except as provided in paragraph (2), any designated law enforcement entity may provide information to the public about a person...
• Section 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 register pursuant...
• Section 290.46.a.
  (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 register pursuant...
• Section 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...
• Section 290.5.
  (a) (1) A person required to register under Section 290 for an offense not listed in paragraph (2), upon obtaining a certificate of rehabilitation under Chapter 3.5...
• Section 290.5.a.
  (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...
• Section 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 local law...
• Section 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...
• Section 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, excluding...
• Section 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...
• Section 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 address of...
• Section 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...
• Section 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,...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...

Last modified: October 22, 2018