Bills · 2025-2026 Regular Session
Relating to: sexual contact by a law enforcement officer with certain persons and providing a penalty.
Crime victim Criminal identification and investigation Legislature — Criminal penalties joint review committee on Police Sex crimes Shared revenue Witness
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What this bill does
Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau
Under current law, it is a second degree sexual assault, which is a Class C felony, for a law enforcement officer to have sexual contact or sexual intercourse with a person who has been detained by a law enforcement officer or who is in the custody of a law enforcement officer. Under current law, for the purposes of the crime, consent is not an issue.
This bill amends the current law prohibition to add that it is also second degree sexual assault for a law enforcement officer to have sexual contact or sexual intercourse with a person who the law enforcement officer knows is a victim, witness, or suspect in any open criminal investigation or a person whom the law enforcement officer contacts in the exercise of their official duties.
Under current law, a person may be required to register as a sex offender for certain crimes that are sexually motivated if the judge determines that it would be in the interest of public protection to have the person register. Under the bill, the new offenses would be subject to this provision.
Because this bill creates a new crime or revises a penalty for an existing crime, the Joint Review Committee on Criminal Penalties may be requested to prepare a report.