Cal.4th: sex offense probation condition that def submit to computer searches was reasonable

Defendant’s sex offense probation condition that he submit to computer searches was reasonably related to the offense. In re George F., 2016 Cal. App. LEXIS 518 (4th Dist. June 28, 2016):

The internet can be used to download child pornography, and facilitate associations with children. The contested conditions (17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 49, 50) in summary, require George to get permission to use a computer, disclose his passwords to law enforcement, refrain from obscuring his identity while online, and submit his electronic devices to search. These contested conditions reasonably relate to the probation department’s supervision of George, because compliance with these conditions provides the probation department with the practical information necessary to enforce the uncontested conditions (16, 34, 35, 43, 45, 46). Because Olguin provided that probation conditions reasonably related to a probationer’s supervision are reasonably related to the probationer’s future criminality and rehabilitation by extension, and George’s conditions are reasonably related to his supervision, George’s conditions are valid under Lent, supra, 15 Cal.3d 481 and constitutional. (Olguin, supra, 45 Cal.4th at p. 380; Lent, supra, at p. 486.)