{"data":{"id":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-57-57-582.5","jurisdiction":"us-ok","citation":"Okla. Stat. tit. 57, § 57-582.5","heading":"Sex offender level assignment committee – Requirements","body":"to override or increase level assignment – Release of records.\n\nA. The Department of Corrections shall establish a sex offender\n\nlevel assignment committee composed of at least five members, each\n\nof whom is a state employee whose service on the committee is in\n\naddition to the regular duties of the employee. The committee, to\n\nthe extent feasible, should include the following:\n\n1. One member having experience in law enforcement;\n\n2. One member having experience as a sex offender treatment\n\nprovider;\n\n3. One member having experience working with victims of sex\n\noffenses; and\n\n4. One member who is a social worker with a graduate degree in\n\nsocial work.\n\nB. The sex offender level assignment committee functions in an\n\noversight capacity. The committee shall determine, based on federal\n\nlaw, the level a person subject to registration pursuant to the\n\nprovisions of the Sex Offenders Registration Act shall be placed on.\n\nC. The offense for which the person is convicted shall serve as\n\nthe basis for the level assigned to the person. In selecting the\n\nlevel assignment, the sex offender level assignment committee shall\n\nuse the following general guidelines:\n\n1. Level one (low): a designation that the person poses a low\n\ndanger to the community and will not likely engage in criminal\n\nsexual conduct;\n\n2. Level two (moderate): a designation that the person poses a\n\nmoderate danger to the community and may continue to engage in\n\ncriminal sexual conduct; and\n\n3. Level three (high): a designation that the person poses a\n\nserious danger to the community and will continue to engage in\n\ncriminal sexual conduct.\n\nD. The sex offender level assignment committee, the Department\n\nof Corrections, or a court may override and increase the level\n\nassignment only if the entity:\n\n1. Believes that the level assignment assessed is not an\n\naccurate prediction of the risk the offender poses to the community;\n\nand\n\n2. Documents the reason for the override in the case file of\n\nthe offender.\n\nProvided, in no event shall the sex offender level assignment\n\ncommittee, the Department of Corrections, or a court override and\n\nreduce a level assigned to an offender as provided in subsection C\n\nof this section.\n\nE. All records and files relating to a person for whom a court,\n\nor the Department of Corrections is required under this act to\n\ndetermine a level assignment, shall be released to the court or the\n\nDepartment of Corrections as appropriate, for the purpose of\n\ndetermining the level assignment of the person.\n\nF. Upon receiving registration information from a local law\n\nenforcement agency of a person who has entered this state and who\n\nhas registered as a sex offender, as required in Section 583 of this\n\ntitle, the sex offender level assignment committee shall review the\n\nregistration information and make a determination of the level\n\nassignment of the person. The Department of Corrections Sex\n\nOffender Registry Unit shall provide written notification to the\n\nperson and the local law enforcement agency of the level assignment\n\nthat has been assigned to the person.\n\nG. The provisions of the Oklahoma Open Meeting Act do not apply\n\nto a meeting of the sex offender level assignment committee.","path":["OK Code","Title 57"],"source_url":"https://www.oklegislature.gov/OK_Statutes/CompleteTitles/os57.pdf","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:36Z","sha256":"336c5a7eee7dbd4595f9626abb35f3decdf39cf77d2cc87aa707975d53dc767a","source_id":"us-ok","stale":false,"prev":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-57-57-582.4","next":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-57-57-582v1"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}