Fifty State Survey of Adult Sex Offender Registration Requirements ...

Registrable Offenses Cont’d
(California)
Fifty State Survey of Adult Sex Offender Registration Requirements
NIC/WCL Project on Addressing Prison Rape
o Rape - CAL. PENAL CODE § 261 (West 2010).
o Sodomy - CAL. PENAL CODE § 286 (West 2010).
o Lewd or lascivious acts involving children - CAL. PENAL CODE § 288 (West 2010).
o Oral copulation - CAL. PENAL CODE § 288a (West 2010).
o Penetration by foreign object - CAL. PENAL CODE § 289 (West 2010).
Assault with the intent to commit rape, sodomy, oral copulation, penetration by foreign object, lewd or
lascivious acts involving children, or aiding or abetting a rape (CAL. PENAL CODE 264.1) - CAL. PENAL
CODE § 220 (West 2010).
Sexual battery of seriously disabled or medically incapacitated victims - CAL. PENAL CODE § 243.4 (West
2010).
Rape:
when the victim is incapable of giving consent;
by force or fear, or in concert with force or violence;
by threat of retaliation;
of a drugged victim;
of a victim unconscious of the nature of the act; or
of a spouse by force or violence for which the offender is sentenced to the state prison; CAL. PENAL CODE
§ 261 (West 2010).
Spousal rape for which the offender is sentenced to state prison - CAL. PENAL CODE § 262(a)(1) (West
2010).
Aiding or abetting a rape - CAL. PENAL CODE § 264.1 (West 2010).
Enticing an unmarried female to a house of ill-fame for the purposes of prostitution - CAL. PENAL CODE §
266 (West 2010).
Inducing consent to sexual act by fraud or fear - CAL. PENAL CODE § 266c (West 2010).
Pimping of a minor - CAL. PENAL CODE § 266h(b) (West 2010).
Pandering of a minor - CAL. PENAL CODE § 266i(b) (West 2010).
Procurement of a child - CAL. PENAL CODE § 266j (West 2010).
Abduction of a minor for prostitution - CAL. PENAL CODE § 267 (West 2010).
Aggravated sexual assault of a child - CAL. PENAL CODE § 269 (West 2010).
** Denotes those states where sex offender registration is required for convictions under the staff sexual misconduct laws of the states. Staff and
inmates could also be required to register as sex offenders if the offense were charged under other registrable offenses.
This publication is developed by the NIC/WCL Project on Addressing Prison Rape under NIC Cooperative Agreement 06S20GJJ1.
This is not to be posted or reproduced without permission from the authors.
American University, Washington College of Law
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