The definitions below apply to this chapter only:
(1) Convicted.
An adult sex offender is “convicted” if the sex offender has been subjected to penal consequences based on the conviction.
(2) A Juvenile offender is “convicted”
if the juvenile offender is either:
(3) “Employee”
includes, but is not limited to, an individual who is self-employed or works for any other entity, regardless of compensation. Volunteers of an agency or organization are included within the definition of employee for registration purposes.
(4) “Immediate” and “immediately”
mean within three business days.
(5) “Imprisonment”
refers to incarceration pursuant to a conviction. Persons under “house arrest” following conviction of a covered sex offense are required to register pursuant to the provisions of this chapter during their period of “house arrest.”
(6) “Jurisdiction”
refers to the 50 states, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the United States Virgin Islands, and any Indian tribe.
(8) “Reside” or “resides”
means the location of the individual’s home or other place where the individual habitually lives or sleeps.
(9) “Sex offense”
means:
(10) Sex Offender.
A person convicted of a sex offense is a “sex offender.”
(11) “Sexual act”(a) (b) (c) (d)
means:
Contact between the penis and the vulva or the penis and the anus, and for purposes of this definition contact involving the penis occurs upon penetration, however slight;
Contact between the mouth and the penis, the mouth and the vulva, or the mouth and the anus;
The penetration, however slight, of the anal or genital opening of another by a hand or finger or by any object, with an intent to abuse, humiliate, harass, degrade, or arouse or gratify the sexual desire of any person; or
The intentional touching, not through the clothing, of the genitalia of another person that has not attained the age of 18 years with an intent to abuse, humiliate, harass, degrade, or arouse or gratify the sexual desire of any person.
(12) “Sexual contact”
means the intentional touching, either directly or through the clothing, of the genitalia, anus, groin, breast, inner thigh, or buttocks of any person with an intent to abuse, humiliate, harass, degrade, or arouse or gratify the sexual desires.
(13) “Specified offense against a minor”(a) (b) (c) (d) (e) (f) (g) (h) (i)
means an offense against a minor that involves any of the following:
An offense (unless committed by a parent or guardian) involving kidnapping.
An offense (unless committed by a parent or guardian) involving false imprisonment.
Solicitation to engage in sexual conduct.
Use in a sexual performance.
Solicitation to practice prostitution.
Video voyeurism as described in 18 U.S.C. 1801 (as amended).
Possession, production, or distribution of child pornography.
Criminal sexual conduct involving a minor, or the use of the internet to facilitate or attempt such conduct.
Any conduct that by its nature is a sex offense against a minor.
(14) “Student”
is a person who enrolls in or attends either a private or public education institution, including a secondary school, trade or professional school, an institution of higher education, interns, externs, and apprentices.
(16) “Tulalip Tribes Sex Offender Registry”
means the registry of sex offenders, and a notification program, maintained by the Tulalip Police Department.
(17) “National Sex Offender Registry (NSOR)”
means the national database maintained by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
(18) “SMART Office”
means the Office of Sex Offender Sentencing, Monitoring, Apprehending, Registering, and Tracking, which was established within the United States Department of Justice under the general authority of the Attorney General of the United States pursuant to 42 U.S.C. 16945.
(19) “Dru Sjodin National Sex Offender Public Website (NSOPW)”
means the public website maintained by the Attorney General of the United States pursuant to 42 U.S.C. 16920.
(20) “Foreign conviction”
means a conviction obtained outside of the United States.
(Ord. 140 § 2.01, 5-4-2012 (Res. 2012-172); Res. 2025-377)