The Attorney General shall maintain, upon appropriation of funds by the Legislature, a statewide Sexual Predator Apprehension Team force. The Sexual Predator Apprehension Team force shall be comprised of special agent teams throughout California. The teams shall focus on repeat sex offenders, and perform the following activities:

(a) Coordinate state and local investigative resources to apprehend high risk sex offenders and persons required to register under Section 290 who violate the law or conditions of probation or parole.

Terms Used In California Penal Code 13885.1

  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • high risk sex offenders: means those persons who are required to register as sex offenders pursuant to the Sex Offender Registration Act and who have been assessed with a score indicating a "high risk" on the SARATSO identified for that person's specific population as set forth in Section 290. See California Penal Code 13885.4
  • Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
  • state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories, and the words "United States" may include the district and territories. See California Penal Code 7

(b) Target and monitor chronic repeat violent sex offenders before the commission of additional sexual offenses.

(c) Develop profiles in unsolved sexual assault cases.

(Amended by Stats. 2012, Ch. 867, Sec. 27. (SB 1144) Effective January 1, 2013.)

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