Sex offender registration.

Existing law requires persons convicted of specified sex offenses to register with local law enforcement agencies while residing, attending school, or working in the state. Willful failure to register, as required, is a crime. Existing law establishes 3 tiers of registration based on specified criteria, requiring registration for periods of at least 10 years, at least 20 years, and for life, respectively, for a conviction of specified sex offenses. Under existing law, a person convicted of willfully and lewdly committing any lewd or lascivious act upon a child under 14 years of age, with the intent of arousing, appealing to, or gratifying the lust, passions, or sexual desires of that person or the child, under circumstances that do not include the use of force, violence, duress, menace, or fear of immediate and unlawful bodily injury on the victim or another person, is a tier 2 offender and is subject to registration for a minimum of 20 years. Under existing law, a person convicted of such an offense in 2 proceedings brought and tried separately or convicted of such an offense under circumstances that do include the use of force, violence, duress, menace, or fear of immediate and unlawful bodily injury on the victim or another person is a tier 3 offender and is subject to registration for life. This bill would make any person convicted of any violation of willfully and lewdly committing any lewd or lascivious act upon a child under 14 years of age, with the intent of arousing, appealing to, or gratifying the lust, passions, or sexual desires of that person or the child, a tier 3 offender subject to lifetime registration.