KRS 17.554: Sex Offender Risk Assessment Advisory Board -- Risk assessment

procedure.

(1) A Sex Offender Risk Assessment Advisory Board is hereby created. The board shall

approve providers who shall conduct comprehensive sex offender presentence

evaluations and treatment.

(2) The board shall develop a comprehensive sex offender presentence evaluation that

shall be used by approved providers in assessing the risk of recommitting a sex

crime by a sex offender, the threat posed to public safety, amenability to sex

offender treatment, and the nature of the required sex offender treatment. The

evaluation shall be based upon, but not limited to the following factors:

(a) Criminal history;

(b) Nature of the offense;

(c) Conditions of release that minimize risk;

(d) Physical conditions that minimize risk;

(e) Psychological or psychiatric profiles;

(f) Recent behavior that indicates an increased risk of recommitting a sex crime;

(g) Recent threats or gestures against persons or expressions of an intent to

commit additional offenses; and

(h) Review of the victim impact statement.