AB 1498 Summary

• Expands mandatory protective order provisions to sex crime cases (rape, spousal rape, and crimes requiring sex offender registration under Penal Code Section 290) in addition to existing domestic violence cases.

• Requires courts to consider issuing protective orders on their own motion in sex crime cases and mandates case records be marked to alert courts of sex offense charges.

• Authorizes courts to consider defendant's relationship to victim, likelihood of continuing harm, criminal history, and any existing protective orders when determining whether to issue protective orders in sex crime cases.

• Permits protective orders to include electronic monitoring for up to one year if local government adopts a policy, with defendant paying costs if able to do so.

• Allows protective orders issued at sentencing to remain valid for up to 10 years, applying to defendants convicted of sex crimes and domestic violence offenses.