Ventura Municipal Code Ch. 10.600 Registration of Felons and Other Persons Convicted of Crimes

A. Definitions. For the purpose of this section, the words “convicted persons” are defined as follows:

Any person who subsequent to January 1, 1921, has been or who shall hereafter be convicted of a felony, or any offense punishable as a felony, in the state of California, or who has been or who is hereafter convicted of the violation of any law in any place other than the state of California, which crime if committed in the state of California would have been a felony or would have been punishable as a felony; also any person who since January 1, 1921, has been or is hereafter convicted in the state of California, or elsewhere, of the violation of any law relating to the following subject or subjects, to wit:

1. Relating to, or regulating, the possession, distribution, furnishing, or use of any habit forming drug of the kind or character described and referred to in Chapter 216, Statutes of 1929 of the state of California, as amended;

2. Regulating or prohibiting the carrying, possession, ownership of any concealed deadly weapon, or any weapons capable of being concealed, or regulating or prohibiting the possession, sale, or use, of any device, instrument or attachment designed, or intended to be used, for the purpose of silencing the report or concealing the discharge or flash, of any firearm;

3. Regulating or prohibiting the use, possession, manufacture, or compounding of tear gas, or any other gas which may be used for the purpose of temporarily or permanently disabling any human being;

4. Any attempt to commit, or any conspiracy to commit, any offense described or referred to in this section;

5. Subject to the hereinafter contained proviso, any person convicted of any of the above enumerated offenses prior to January 1, 1921, whose term of imprisonment, period of punishment or sentence, term of parole or probationary period, as the case may be, did not, or will not, expire until some date subsequent to January 1, 1921, and all persons convicted of any of the foregoing offenses, or any offense described in subsection (A)(7) of this section, subsequent to January 1, 1921, and whose term of imprisonment, period of probation, or sentence, or term of parole, has not expired, shall, upon the expiration or termination of such term of imprisonment, period of probation, or sentence, term of parole, or probationary period, be deemed a convicted person;

6. Provided, further, that in the event any person who is now, or who has been, or who may hereafter be, placed on probation for the committing of any of the above enumerated offenses, whose conviction is set aside in the manner provided by law, shall not be deemed a convicted person;

7. Any person who has been since January 1, 1921, or is hereafter, convicted of, or is adjudicated as, a drug addict, as defined in subdivision 12 of Section 647 of the Penal Code of the state of California, in the state of California, or elsewhere, shall also be deemed a convicted person.

B. Registration Requirements. Every convicted person in the city shall register with, and furnish to, the chief of police of said city a statement in writing, signed by such person, giving the following information:

1. The person’s true name and all aliases which the person has used or under which they may have been known;

2. A full and complete description of their person;

3. The kind, character and nature of each crime of which the person has been convicted;

4. The place where such crime was, or crimes were, committed, and the place of conviction of the same;

5. The name under which the person was convicted, in each instance, and the date thereof;

6. The name, if any, and the location of each prison, reformatory, jail or other penal institution in which the person was confined, or to which the person was sentenced;

7. The location and address of the person’s residence, stopping place, living quarters, or place of abode, in the city; if more than one residence, stopping place, or place of abode, that fact must be stated and the location and address of each given;

8. A statement of the kind of residence, stopping place, or place of abode, in which the person resides whether the same is temporary or permanent, i.e., whether the same is a private residence, hotel, apartment house, or other building, or structure;

9. The length of time the person has occupied each such place of residence, stopping place, or place of abode, and the length of time the person expects or intends to remain in the city.

All such statements shall be made upon forms therefor prescribed and provided by the chief of police; such statements shall contain such other and further information as may be required by the chief of police for the purpose of aiding and assisting the chief of police in carrying into effect the provisions and intent of this section.

C. Sojourn in City. Every other convicted person, except such persons as are referred to in subsection A of this section, who enters and remains in the city for 24 hours shall, within three hours after the expiration of such 24-hour period, furnish to the chief of police a written statement on like form and containing all the information required by the written statement referred to in subsection B of this section, and shall in addition thereto state in writing in such statement the date that the person entered the state of California and each of the person’s places of residence or abode for the three months period next preceding the date of the person’s arrival in the city.

D. Nonresidents. Any convicted person who does not reside in the city who has a temporary or permanent place of abode outside the city and who comes into or is within the city limits on five occasions or more, during any 30-day period, shall be subject to the provisions of this chapter and shall immediately upon entering the city on any such fifth occasion register with the chief of police and furnish the information required by the provisions of subsections B and C of this section.

E. Fingerprinting. Each convicted person shall at the time of registering and furnishing the information required by subsections B and C of this section be photographed and fingerprinted by the said chief of police, who shall cause such photographs and fingerprints to be made a part of the record provided for by the foregoing sections, and subsection F of this section.

F. Filing of Records. The statements, photographs and fingerprints hereinbefore provided for shall at all times be kept by the said chief of police in a file or files separate and apart from other files and records maintained and kept by the police department of said city and shall not be open to inspection by the public, or by any person other than a regular member of the police department, of the city; provided, that any such photograph, or duplicates thereof, may be exhibited to persons other than police officers of the city for the purpose of assisting in identifying perpetrators of any crime; and provided, further, that copies of said statements, photographs and fingerprints may be transmitted to the sheriff of any county of the state of California, to the head of any organized police department of any municipality in said state, or to the head of any department of the state of California engaged in the enforcement of any criminal law of this state, or to the head of any federal law enforcement agency, or to any sheriff or chief of police of a municipality, or the head of any other law enforcement agency of any state in any state or territory outside of the state of California, when request is made in writing by such sheriff or other head of the law enforcement agency asking for the record of a certain person named therein, or for the record of a person whose photograph or fingerprints reasonably correspond with photographs or fingerprints submitted with such request, and stating that such record is deemed necessary for the use of such law enforcement officer or agency in, or concerning, the investigation of any crime or any person who is accused of committing a crime, which is reported to have been committed, and further stating that the record will be used only for such purpose. Any police officer or other employee of the police department who discloses to any person any information contained in any statement required to be filed under the provisions of this chapter otherwise than in the regular course of their duties shall be guilty of a misdemeanor; provided, however, that nothing contained in this chapter shall prevent the chief of police from furnishing to the sheriff of any county, the chief of police of any municipality, or the head of any other law enforcing agency which maintains any system of registration of convicted persons copies of the statement required to be filed under the provisions of this chapter, together with photographs and fingerprints of persons making such statements when and if such sheriff, chief of police or other head of a law enforcing agency furnished to the chief of police of this city copies of statements, photographs and fingerprints procured by them, and it is hereby made the duty of such chief of police to arrange for the exchange of such information.

G. Change of Address. Any convicted person who is required to register under the provisions of this chapter, who changes their place of residence, stopping place or living quarters, shall within 48 hours after the changing of their place of residence, stopping place, or living quarters notify the chief of police of such fact and furnish to said chief of police the new address of their new residence, stopping place, or living quarters, in the same manner and with the same detailed information as is required in the filing of the original statement under the provisions of subsections B, C, and D of this section.

H. False Information. Any person required by any provision of this chapter to furnish a statement, who shall in such statement give any false or fictitious address, or any address other than a true address or intended address, or furnish in the making of any such report any false, untrue or misleading information or statement relating to any information required by any of the provisions of this chapter to be made or furnished, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. (Code 1971, § 6211)