AB 934

Under current law, a person must register with the Department of Corrections

(DOC) as a sex offender if he or she has been convicted of certain sex offenses, found

not guilty of certain sex offenses by reason of mental disease or defect, or adjudicated

delinquent on the basis of certain sex offenses. These sex offenses include sexual

assault of a child and repeated sexual assault of a child (child sex offense) and

first-degree, second-degree, and third-degree sexual assault. In addition, the

person must register with DOC as a sex offender if he or she commits other offenses

and the court determines that the underlying conduct was sexually motivated and

it would be in the interest of public protection for the person to register. These

offenses include fourth-degree sexual assault. Under this bill, a person over the age

of 17 must register with DOC as a sex offender, without a court determination, if a

child sex offense against an individual who has not attained the age of 13 years was

dismissed or uncharged as part of a plea agreement for fourth-degree sexual assault.