Considerations for increased community notification (a)(1) If the offender has committed previous juvenile or adult sexual offenses, has multiple offenses, or has multiple victims, whether or not there are convictions, the community notification level may go beyond the recidivism risk suggested by the actuarial instruments
Arkansas Code § 12-12-913; Arkansas Code § 12-12-915
(2) This may extend to:
- (A) Known or self-admitted molestations;
- (B) Offenses that were reported and reliably investigated even if not prosecuted; and
(C) Offenses primarily sexual in nature but pled down to non-sexual offenses.
- (b) If statements made by the offender during the interview, or relevant historical data suggest there are psychological abnormalities that may predispose the offender to sexual offending, a physical condition, addiction, or other psychological impairment that decreases his or her ability to control sexual impulses, or increases his or her potential for sexual violence, or other data that suggest higher risk than the actuarial model predicts, the community notification level should go beyond the recidivism risk suggested by the actuarial instruments.
- (c) If the offense involved extreme physical injury, death, or other heinous actions, the offender should be assigned no lower than a Level 3.
- (d) If the offender has provided information on record or during the interview that he or she is likely to commit subsequent sex offenses, the offender may be:
- (1) Assigned Level 3; or
(2) Referred to the Sex Offender Assessment Committee for a determination of Level 4, if appropriate.
- (e) If the offender’s offense history, behavior, or victim characteristics (e.g., extremely young victim, stranger victim, extra-familial victim, etc.) indicates community notification should go beyond the recidivism risk suggested by the actuarial instruments.