Criminal Sexual Conduct Assessment: Standardized

Procedure.

(a)The Superior Court of Guam, the Department of Corrections, the Guam Parole Board, the Guam Police Department, and the Guam Behavioral Health and Wellness Center (the Assessment Team) shall cooperate to develop and implement the following:

(1)A standardized procedure for the assessment of individuals accused or convicted of sexual offenses for dangerousness and risk for recidivism. The assessment may include the use of physiological testing, in conjunction with a thorough psychiatric evaluation, comprehensive sexual history, and clinical expertise or such other test of the offender as deemed appropriate by the Assessment Team. The assessment procedure developed pursuant to this Section shall recommend treatment or rehabilitation that is appropriate to the needs of the particular offender and which is aimed at reducing dangerousness and risk of recidivism or shall indicate whether no treatment or rehabilitation is known or predictable that will reduce dangerousness or risk of recidivism.

(2)A system of programs for treatment and rehabilitation of individuals convicted of criminal sexual conduct offenses which can be utilized by offenders who are placed on probation, incarcerated at the Department of COL5/8/2020 CH. 93 CRIMINAL SEXUAL CONDUCT ASSESSMENT AND REHABILITATION ACT Corrections, placed on parole, or placed in community corrections, or released on probation or parole, or discharged from prison.

(b)The procedures for treatment and rehabilitation required to be developed by Subsection

(a)of this Section shall be implemented only to the extent monies are available; provided that, in all cases, persons referred or ordered to receive treatment or rehabilitation shall do so at their own expense, unless such person is determined to be indigent.

(c)The Superior Court of Guam, the Department of Corrections, the Guam Parole Board, the Guam Police Department, and the Guam Behavioral Health and Wellness Center shall cooperate to develop a schedule of fees sufficient to cover the costs of assessment, testing, and treatment as required by this Section. All persons referred or ordered to receive assessment, testing, or treatment shall be made to pay for such, in accordance with the fee schedule, except in such cases where the person is determined to be indigent, at which point the government of Guam may provide access to government funded or government contracted service providers, if available.