July 18, 2012
Rewrites the Virgin Islands sex offender registration scheme at 14 V.I.C. ch. 86 to conform to the federal Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act, expressly to avoid the 10 percent Byrne JAG reduction imposed on non-implementing jurisdictions. Section 1721 is replaced and new subsections (c) through (w) added, importing the 42 U.S.C. § 16911(5) offense definitions, SORNA conviction and juvenile-adjudication rules, and foreign-conviction limits. The DNA provision requires that if the sex offender is not already included in the Combined DNA Index System, the offender shall provide a sample of his or her DNA, to be forwarded to an appropriate laboratory for analysis with the resulting DNA profile entered into CODIS. This registry-based collection duty runs parallel to the separate Chapter 345 DNA Database and Databank created by Act No. 7193 (2010).