Oklahoma Criminal Law
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Oklahoma's Sex Offenders Registration Act is located at Title 57 O.S. § 581 - 590.2 and section 582 of the act explains the applicability of the act. The sex offender registration act is very complicated, some believe intentionally so, and the act applies both to those convicted of specified sexual offense in Oklahoma and those convicted of sexual offenses in other states that move to Oklahoma. If you believe that you may be required to register under Oklahoma's Sex Offender Registration Act you need to carefully examine the law and seek legal counsel if you are unsure if the law applies to you.
The penalties for violating Oklahoma's Sex Offender Registration Act can be found at Title 57 O.S. § 587 and reads as follows:
A. Any person required to register pursuant to the provisions of the Sex Offenders Registration Act who violates any provision of said act shall, upon conviction, be guilty of a felony. Any person convicted of a violation of this section shall be punished by imprisonment in the custody of the Department of Corrections for not more than five (5) years, a fine not to exceed Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00), or both such fine and imprisonment.
B. Any person required to register pursuant to the Sex Offenders Registration Act who fails to comply with the established guidelines for global position system (GPS) monitoring shall, upon conviction, be guilty of a felony punishable by a fine not to exceed One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), or by imprisonment in the custody of the county jail for not more than one (1) year, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
Often times prosecution of those who violate the sex offender registration act is motivated more be who they believe the person is more than what they believe the person has has done by their failure to register.