Sex offenders: parole violations.

Existing law requires persons who have been convicted of specified crimes to register as a sex offender. Existing law provides for parole and postrelease community supervision of felons, as provided, including provisions for the revocation of parole or postrelease community supervision by a court or revocation hearing officer. This bill would require a criminal defendant who is released on parole or to postrelease community supervision, who has suffered a prior or current felony requiring registration as a sex offender, and who violates that parole or postrelease community-based supervision by violating the requirement to register as a sex offender to serve any period of incarceration ordered for that violation in the state prison. This bill would also make a conforming change by authorizing the revocation hearing officer to revoke and terminate postrelease community supervision and order the person to confinement in the state prison, upon a finding that the person has violated the conditions of postrelease community supervision.