SB 668

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. Under current law, when a registrant

is released into the community from confinement or other care, DOC or the

Department of Health Services (DHS), whichever agency has authority over the

registrant, has the option to notify the police chief of the community, and the sheriff

of the county, in which the registrant will be residing, employed, or attending school

if the registrant has been convicted, or found not guilty by reason of mental defect

or disease, of a sex offense only one time and must notify the police chief of the

community, and the sheriff of the county, in which the registrant will be residing,

employed, or attending school or through which the registrant will be traveling if the

registrant has been, on two or more occasions, convicted, or found not guilty by

reason of mental disease or defect, of a sex offense or if the registrant has been found

to be a sexually violent person. This bill applies identical notification provisions to

a sex offender in another state, or a person on supervision in another state following

the commission of a sex offense, who becomes a resident of this state under an

interstate compact, becomes employed or a student in this state, or becomes subject

to a sanction in this state other than confinement in a prison or jail.