SB 1634 – Career Offenders

• Requires driver licenses and identification cards issued to registered career offenders (habitual violent felony offenders, violent career criminals, three-time violent felony offenders, and prison releasee reoffenders) to bear the marking "CAREER OFFENDER" on the front, and requires career offenders to report during their birth month to obtain updated documents.

• Tightens registration timelines from 2 working days to 48 hours for career offenders to report to the sheriff's office after establishing a permanent or temporary residence, being released from custody, changing residence, changing name, or intending to leave the state, and reduces the threshold defining "permanent" and "temporary" residence from 14 days to 5 days.

• Expands required registration information to include employment details, home and cellular telephone numbers, palm prints, and the make, model, color, VIN, and license tag number of all vehicles owned, including vehicles registered to persons residing at the offender's permanent residence for 5 or more consecutive days.

• Increases criminal penalties for assisting a career offender in noncompliance with registration requirements from a first-degree misdemeanor to a third-degree felony, and expands prosecutorial jurisdiction to include the county of incarceration release or the offender's intended address upon release.

• Requires county and local law enforcement agencies to annually verify addresses of career offenders not under Department of Corrections supervision and to report any registration failures, and mandates local jail custodians to notify the Department of Law Enforcement within 3 business days of a career offender's intake or release, including providing a digitized photograph.