§ 3010.10. — 3010.10. (Amended by Stats. 2014, Ch. 603, Sec. 1.)

California § 3010.10.

• Jurisdiction: California
• Code PEN: Penal Code - PEN
• Title: 1.
• Part 3.: TITLE 1. IMPRISONMENT OF MALE PRISONERS IN STATE PRISONS
• Ch. 8.: CHAPTER 8. Length of Term of Imprisonment and Paroles
• Art. 2.: ARTICLE 2. Electronic Monitoring

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(a)
A person who is required to register as a sex offender pursuant to Section 290 as a condition of parole shall report to his or her parole officer within one working day following release from custody, or as instructed by a parole officer to have an electronic, global positioning system (GPS), or other monitoring device affixed to his or her person.
(b)
A person who is required to register as a sex offender
pursuant to Section 290 shall not remove, disable, render inoperable, or knowingly circumvent the operation of, or permit another to remove, disable, render inoperable, or knowingly circumvent the operation of, an electronic,
GPS, or other monitoring device affixed to his or her person as a condition of parole, when he or she knows that the device was affixed as a condition of parole.
(c)
(1)
This section does not apply if the
removal, disabling, rendering inoperable, or circumvention of the electronic, GPS, or other monitoring device is performed by a physician, emergency medical services technician, or by any other emergency response or medical personnel when doing so is necessary during the course of medical treatment of the person subject to the electronic, GPS, or other monitoring device.
(2)
This section does not apply if the removal, disabling, rendering inoperable, or knowingly circumventing the operation of the electronic, GPS, or other monitoring device is authorized or required by a court, or by the law enforcement, probation, parole authority, or other entity responsible for placing the electronic, GPS, or other monitoring device upon the person, or that has, at the time, the authority and responsibility to monitor the electronic,
GPS, or other monitoring device.
(d)
Unless the parole authority finds that in the interests of justice it is not appropriate in a particular case, upon a violation of subdivision (a), the parole authority shall revoke the person’s parole and require that he or she be incarcerated in a county jail for 180 days.
(e)
Upon a violation of
subdivision (b), the parole authority shall revoke the person’s parole and require that he or she be incarcerated in a county jail for 180 days.

Legislative History

Amended by Stats. 2014, Ch. 603, Sec. 1. (AB 2121) Effective January 1, 2015.