Forwarding of registration information and level assignment - Suspended sentences or probation - Duties of court.

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A. No less than seven (7) days prior to the date on which a person, who will be subject to the provisions of the Sex Offenders Registration Act, is to be released from a correctional institution, the person in charge of the correctional institution shall forward the registration information, as provided in subsection A of Section 585 of this title, and level assignment to the Department of Corrections and to:

1. The local law enforcement authority in the municipality or county in which the person expects to reside, if the person expects to reside within this state; or

2. The local law enforcement authority that is identified by the correctional institution as the agency designated by another state to receive registration information, if the person expects to reside in that other state and that other state has a registration requirement for sex offenders.

B. If a person, who will be subject to the provisions of the Sex Offenders Registration Act, received a suspended sentence or any probationary term, including a deferred sentence imposed in violation of subsection G of Section 991c of Title 22 of the Oklahoma Statutes, the court shall, on the day of pronouncing the judgment and sentence:

1. Utilize the sex offender level assignments established by the sex offender level assignment committee provided for in Section 582.5 of this title;

2. Assign to the person a level of one, two, or three;

3. Notify the person of the obligation to register as a sex offender as provided for in Section 585 of this title; and

4. Order the offender to report to the local law enforcement authority in the municipality or county in which the offender resides and to report to the Oklahoma Department of Corrections probation and parole office in the district in which the offender resides.

C. Within three (3) business days after the court orders the judgment and sentence, the court clerk shall transmit to the Sex and Violent Offenders Registration Unit of the Department of Corrections by facsimile, electronic mail or actual delivery of a certified copy of:

1. The judgment and sentence; or

2. Plea paperwork, Summary of Facts and Sentence on Plea or Sentencing After Jury Trial Summary of Facts.

Added by Laws 2007, c. 261, § 24, eff. Nov. 1, 2007. Amended by Laws 2009, c. 404, § 3, eff. Nov. 1, 2009; Laws 2017, c. 224, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2017.


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