1. A. The Department of Corrections shall establish a risk assessment review committee composed of at least five members, each of whom is a state employee whose service on the review committee is in addition to the regular duties of the employee. The review committee, to the extent feasible, should include the following: 1. One member having experience in law enforcement; 2. One member having experience as a sex offender treatment provider; 3. One member having experience working with victims of sex offenses; and 4. One member who is a social worker with a graduate degree in social work. B. The risk assessment review committee functions in an oversight capacity. The committee shall: 1. Develop or select from among existing tools, a sex offender screening tool to be used in determining the level of risk of a person subject to registration pursuant to the provisions of the Sex Offenders Registration Act; 2. Ensure that staff is trained on the use of the screening tool; 3. Monitor the use of the screening tool in the state; and 4. Analyze other screening tools as they become available and revise or replace the existing screening tool, if warranted. C. The sex offender screening tool must use an objective point system under which a person is assigned a designated number of points for each of the various factors. The offense for which the person is convicted shall serve as the basis for the minimum numeric risk level assigned to the person. In developing or selecting the sex offender screening tool, the risk assessment review committee shall use or shall select a screening tool that may be adapted to use the following general guidelines: 1. Level one (low): a designated range of points on the sex offender screening tool indicating that the person poses a low danger to the community and will not likely engage in criminal sexual conduct; 2. Level two (moderate): a designated range of points on the sex offender screening tool indicating that the person poses a moderate danger to the community and may continue to engage in criminal sexual conduct; and 3. Level three (high): a designated range of points on the sex offender screening tool indicating that the person poses a serious danger to the community and will continue to engage in criminal sexual conduct. D. The risk assessment review committee, the Department of Corrections, or a court may override a risk level only if the entity: 1. Believes that the risk level assessed is not an accurate prediction of the risk the offender poses to the community; and 2. Documents the reason for the override in the case file of the offender. E. All records and files relating to a person for whom a court, or the Department of Corrections is required under this act to determine a level of risk, shall be released to the court or the Department of Corrections as appropriate, for the purpose of determining the risk level of the person. F. The provisions of the Oklahoma Open Meeting Act do not apply to a meeting of the risk assessment review committee.

Added by Laws 2007, HB 1760, c. 261, § 26, eff. November 1, 2007