California Welfare and Institutions Code ARTICLE 4 - Sexually Violent Predators

• Section 6600.
  As used in this article, the following terms have the following meanings:(a) (1) “Sexually violent predator” means a person who has been convicted of a sexually violent...
• Section 6600.05.
  (a)  Coalinga State Hospital shall be used whenever a person is committed to a secure facility for mental health treatment pursuant to this article and...
• Section 6600.1.
  If the victim of an underlying offense that is specified in subdivision (b) of Section 6600 is a child under the age of 14, the...
• Section 6601.
  (a) (1) Whenever the Secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation determines that an individual who is in custody under the jurisdiction of the Department of...
• Section 6601.3.
  (a) Upon a showing of good cause, the Board of Parole Hearings may order that a person referred to the State Department of State Hospitals pursuant...
• Section 6601.5.
  Upon filing of the petition and a request for review under this section, a judge of the superior court shall review the petition and determine...
• Section 6602.
  (a) A judge of the superior court shall review the petition and shall determine whether there is probable cause to believe that the individual named in...
• Section 6602.5.
  (a) No person may be placed in a state hospital pursuant to the provisions of this article until there has been a determination pursuant to Section...
• Section 6603.
  (a) A person subject to this article shall be entitled to a trial by jury, to the assistance of counsel, to the right to retain experts...
• Section 6603.3.
  (a) (1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), no attorney may disclose or permit to be disclosed to a person subject to this article, family members of...
• Section 6603.5.
  No employee or agent of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the Board of Parole Hearings, or the State Department of State Hospitals shall disclose...
• Section 6603.7.
  (a) Except as provided in Section 6603.3, the court, at the request of the victim of a sex offense relevant in a proceeding under this article,...
• Section 6604.
  The court or jury shall determine whether, beyond a reasonable doubt, the person is a sexually violent predator. If the court or jury is not...
• Section 6604.1.
  (a) The indeterminate term of commitment provided for in Section 6604 shall commence on the date upon which the court issues the initial order of commitment...
• Section 6604.9.
  (a) A person found to be a sexually violent predator and committed to the custody of the State Department of State Hospitals shall have a current...
• Section 6605.
  (a) (1) The court, upon receiving a petition for unconditional discharge, shall order a show cause hearing at which the court can consider the petition and any...
• Section 6606.
  (a) A person who is committed under this article shall be provided with programming by the State Department of State Hospitals which shall afford the person...
• Section 6607.
  (a) If the Director of State Hospitals determines that the person’s diagnosed mental disorder has so changed that the person is not likely to commit acts...
• Section 6608.
  (a) A person who has been committed as a sexually violent predator shall be permitted to petition the court for conditional release with or without the...
• Section 6608.5.
  (a) A person who is conditionally released pursuant to this article shall be placed in the county of the domicile of the person prior to the...
• Section 6608.7.
  The State Department of State Hospitals may enter into an interagency agreement or contract with the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation or with local law...
• Section 6608.8.
  (a) For any person who is proposed for community outpatient treatment under the forensic conditional release program, the department shall provide to the court a copy...
• Section 6609.
  Within 10 days of a request made by the chief of police of a city or the sheriff of a county, the State Department of...
• Section 6609.1.
  (a) (1) When the State Department of State Hospitals makes a recommendation to the court for community outpatient treatment for any person committed as a sexually violent...
• Section 6609.2.
  (a) When any sheriff or chief of police is notified by the State Department of State Hospitals of its recommendation to the court concerning the disposition...
• Section 6609.3.
  (a) At the time a notice is sent pursuant to subdivisions (a) and (b) of Section 6609.1, the sheriff, chief of police, or district attorney notified...

Last modified: October 22, 2018