People v. Daniels CA4/2

BACKGROUND

In 2013, Daniels was convicted of oral copulation of a child under the age of

and sentenced to 12 years in prison. (Pen. Code, § 288a, subd. (c)(1); unlabeled statutory

citations refer to this code.) On January 4, 2023, Daniels was released from custody with

a parole term set to expire on July 5, 2043. As part of his parole conditions, he was

required to comply with the registration and reporting requirements of the Sex Offender

Registration Act (the Act) (§ 290 et seq.) and to participate in continuous electronic

monitoring by wearing a Global Positioning System (GPS) device.

On the morning of March 20, 2023, Daniels’s parole agent, Timothy Buckland,

received a notification that Daniels’s GPS device had been tampered with. When

Buckland was unable to locate Daniels at his residence or at the last location that the GPS

device had recorded, Buckland applied for a warrant for Daniels’s arrest, which the court

issued that same day. Five months later, on August 22, 2023, Daniels was arrested in

Douglas County, Oregon, extradited to California on September 6, and arrested for

absconding and violating his parole conditions. On September 8, parole agent…