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1 1 Section 1. Section 709.16, Code 1997, is amended to read
1 2 as follows:
1 3 709.16 SEXUAL MISCONDUCT WITH OFFENDERS AND JUVENILES.
1 4 1. An officer, employee, contractor, vendor, volunteer, or
1 5 agent of the department of corrections, or an officer,
1 6 employee, or agent of a judicial district department of
1 7 correctional services, who engages in a sex act with an
1 8 individual committed to the custody of the department of
1 9 corrections or a judicial district department of correctional
1 10 services commits an aggravated misdemeanor.
1 11 2. An officer, employee, contractor, vendor, volunteer, or
1 12 agent of a juvenile placement facility who engages in a sex
1 13 act with a juvenile placed at such facility commits an
1 14 aggravated misdemeanor.
1 15 3. A child foster care parent or an officer, employee,
1 16 contractor, vendor, volunteer, or agent of any foster care
1 17 agency who engages in a sex act with a juvenile placed in the
1 18 child foster care parent's or child foster care agency's
1 19 custody commits an aggravated misdemeanor.
1 20 EXPLANATION
1 21 Current law prohibits correctional employees, contractors,
1 22 and other agents from engaging in a sex act with offenders in
1 23 custody. This bill expands the criminal offense of sexual
1 24 misconduct to prohibit such sex acts between juvenile
1 25 placement facility employees, contractors, and other agents
1 26 and juveniles placed at these facilities. In addition, the
1 27 bill prohibits such sex acts between a foster parent or
1 28 employees, contractors, and other agents of a foster care
1 29 agency with a child placed in the foster parent's or agency's
1 30 care.
1 31 A person who violates the bill commits an aggravated
1 32 misdemeanor.
1 33 LSB 3605HH 77
1 34 jm/jw/5
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