Oregon Administrative Rules › Chapter 255 - BOARD OF PAROLE AND POST-PRISON SUPERVISION › Division 85 - SEX OFFENDER NOTIFICATION LEVELS › Section 255-085-0010 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 63, No. 7, July 1, 2024
The following definitions apply to this Division:
(1) "Adult male registrant" means a male
			 registrant who was at least 18 years of age when he committed the sex
			 crime.
(2) "Board registered victim"
			 means a Victim, as defined in OAR 255-005-0005, who is registered with the
			 Board.
(3) "Category B registrant" means
			 a person of any gender or age at the time of sex crime commission who is required to
			 register as a sex offender based only on a conviction for a Category B sex
			 crime.
(4) "Category B sex crime" means
			 any type of criminal offense within the scope of "Category B offenses" used to
			 administer the Static-99R and listed on the Board's website and is also a sex crime
			 for which reporting is required.
(5)
			 "Child abuse offense" means an offense for any of the following which includes but
			 is not limited to: abandonment of a child; child neglect in the first degree; child
			 neglect in the second degree; endangering the welfare of a child; abandonment of a
			 child; child sexual abuse; or assault of a child.
(6) "Classifying Agency" means any Oregon state or
			 local government agency that performs risk assessments on sex offenders including
			 community corrections, the Department of Corrections and the Board of Parole. ORS
			 163A.105 directs what agency is
			 responsible for each population.
(7)
			 "Existing registrant" means a registrant for whom the event triggering the
			 obligation to make an initial report under ORS
			 163A.010(3)(a)(A),
			 163A.015(4)(a)(A) or
			 163A.020(1)(a)(A), (2)(a)(A) or
			 (3)(a)(A) occurred before January 1,
			 2014.
(8) "Failed to participate" means
			 the registrant has been out of compliance with ORS
			 163A.010-020 for more than 90 days;
			 or a letter sent to the registrant's latest address in the Oregon sex offender
			 registry is returned "undeliverable"; or the registrant does not return a request
			 for information from a classifying agency.
(9) "Female registrant" means a female registrant,
			 regardless of her age when she committed the sex crime.
(10) "Other registrant" means a registrant who is
			 not an adult male registrant. Other Registrant includes: female registrants;
			 Category B registrants; and young male registrants.
(11) "Person Crime" means "Person Felonies" and
			 "Person Class A misdemeanors" as defined in OAR 213-003-0001.
(12) "Registrant" means a person convicted of a
			 sex crime and required to register as a sex offender or found guilty except for
			 insanity of a sex crime and required to register as a sex offender under ORS Chapter
			 163A.
(13) "Risk assessment" means a sex
			 offense-specific assessment of the person's risk to sexually reoffend, using the
			 risk assessment methodology in OAR 255-085-0020.
(14) "Sex crime" means a crime described in ORS
			 163A.005(5) and
			 (6).
(15) "Supervisory Authority" has the definition in
			 OAR 255-005-0005.
(16) "Young male
			 registrant" means a male registrant who was 17 years of age or younger when he
			 committed the sex crime offense.
Statutory/Other Authority: ORS
				  163A.100, ORS
				  163A.115, ORS
				  163A.105, ORS
				  163A.110 & ORS
				  163A.125
Statutes/Other Implemented: ORS
				  163A.100, ORS
				  163A.115, HB 2320 (2015), SB 767
				  (2017), ORS 163A.105, ORS
				  163A.110, Section 7, Chapter 708,
				  Oregon Laws 2013, as amended by Section 27, Chapter 820, Oregon Laws (2015) &
				  ORS 163A.125