Section 290.09 Of Chapter 5.5. Sex Offenders From California Penal Code >> Title 9. >> Part 1. >> Chapter 5.5.
290.09
. On or before July 2012, the SARATSO dynamic tool and the
SARATSO future violence tool, as set forth in Section 290.04, shall
be administered as follows:
(a) (1) Every sex offender required to register pursuant to
Sections 290 to 290.023, inclusive, shall, while on parole or formal
probation, participate in an approved sex offender management
program, pursuant to Sections 1203.067 and 3008.
(2) The sex offender management program shall meet the
certification requirements developed by the California Sex Offender
Management Board pursuant to Section 9003. Probation departments and
the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation shall not employ or
contract with, and shall not allow a sex offender to employ or
contract with, any individual or entity to provide sex offender
evaluation or treatment services pursuant to this section unless the
sex offender evaluation or treatment services to be provided by the
individual or entity conforms with the standards developed pursuant
to Section 9003.
(b) (1) The sex offender management professionals certified by the
California Sex Offender Management Board in accordance with Section
9003 who provide sex offender management programs for any probation
department or the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation shall
assess each registered sex offender on formal probation or parole
using the SARATSO dynamic tool, when a dynamic risk factor changes,
and shall do a final dynamic assessment within six months of the
offender's release from supervision. The management professional
shall also assess the sex offenders in the program with the SARATSO
future violence tool.
(2) The certified sex offender management professional shall, as
soon as possible but not later than 30 days after the assessment,
provide the person's score on the SARATSO dynamic tool and the future
violence tool to the person's parole agent or probation officer.
Within five working days of receipt of the score, the parole or
probation officer shall send the score to the Department of Justice,
and the score shall be accessible to law enforcement through the
Department of Justice's Internet Web site for the California Sex and
Arson Registry (CSAR).
(c) The certified sex offender management professional shall
communicate with the offender's probation officer or parole agent on
a regular basis, but at least once a month, about the offender's
progress in the program and dynamic risk assessment issues, and shall
share pertinent information with the certified polygraph examiner as
required.
(d) The SARATSO Training Committee shall provide annual training
on the SARATSO dynamic tool and the SARATSO future violence tool.
Certified sex offender management professionals shall attend this
training once to obtain authorization to perform the assessments, and
thereafter attend training updates as required by the SARATSO
Training Committee. If a sex offender management professional is
certified pursuant to Section 9003 to conduct an approved sex
offender management program prior to attending SARATSO training on
the dynamic and violent risk assessment tools, he or she shall
present to the SARATSO Training Committee proof of training on these
tools from a risk assessment expert approved by the SARATSO Training
Committee.