Victims of crime: notification.

Existing law requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to give notice of any hearing to review or consider the parole suitability of an inmate to any victim of a crime committed by the inmate at least 90 days before his or her hearing before the Board of Parole Hearings. Existing law requires the victim to make a request and keep the board apprised of his or her current contact information in order to receive the notice. Existing law also requires the department to provide a form to enable victims of crime to request and receive notification from the department of the release, escape, scheduled execution, or death of a violent offender. This bill would require the department to create a victim outreach program to conduct outreach to victims, witnesses, or next of kin of victims that have not yet requested notification and to make the right to notification services public, as provided.