BILL NUMBER: SB 1128	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Alquist

                        JANUARY 9, 2006

   An act relating to sex offenders.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1128, as introduced, Alquist  Sex offenders.
   Existing law requires all persons convicted of specified sex
crimes to register as a sex offender for life.
   This bill would make findings and declarations relating to the
Legislature's intent to enact the Sex Offender Punishment, Control,
and Containment Act of 2006, a comprehensive strategy to protect
California communities from sex offenders.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:


  SECTION 1.  The Legislature finds and declares all of the
following:
   (a) Sex crime prevention should be the primary goal of community
sex offender management programs.
   (b) To be as effective as possible, sex offender management
programs at the state and local levels must fit into a single
comprehensive approach. This approach must offer state and local law
enforcement better monitoring ability to observe, assess, and
anticipate registered sex offender behavior patterns.
   (c) The public and law enforcement are entitled to more accurate,
up-to-date and relevant information about registered sex offenders.
   (d) To accomplish this, California's infrastructure for
collecting, maintaining, and disseminating information about
registered sex offenders must be retooled to ensure that law
enforcement and the public have access to accurate, up-to-date and
relevant information about registered sex offenders.
   (e) It is the intent of the Legislature to enact the Sex Offender
Punishment, Control and Containment Act of 2006, an effective and
comprehensive strategy to protect California communities. Such a
strategy must include the following provisions:
   (1) Statewide SAFE teams to monitor all registered sex offenders
in communities.
   (2) Increased monitoring and intensive scrutiny of registered sex
offenders on parole or probation.
   (3) Prohibiting offenders from loitering around schools or places
where other vulnerable populations congregate.
   (4) Penalties for rape or sodomy of a prepubescent child by an
adult that are increased to 25 years to life.
   (5) School-based programs to promote child safety and prevent
child abductions.
   (6) Mandatory risk assessments for all persons convicted of sex
offenses which will be used to better inform the community and focus
law enforcement resources on those sex offenders most likely to
reoffend.
   (7) Increased penalties for child pornography.
   (8) Promotion of greater use of existing lengthy sex offense
sentences by encouraging district attorneys to prosecute under "1
Strike", "3 Strikes", or Habitual Sex Offender laws rather than plea
bargaining to lesser offenses.
   (9) Increased parole terms for those convicted of certain sex
offenses.
   (10) Ensure that sexually violent predators serve their full
parole term under strict supervision and that time in a state
hospital does not count for parole.
   (11) Mandatory control and containment programming for sex
offenders while in prison and on probation or parole.
   (12) Retooling of the Megan's Law website to include more medium
and high-risk sex offenders and provide more information to the
public such as risk level.