Sec. 544. Oversight of registered sex offender management program
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The Secretary of Defense shall designate a single official or existing entity within the Office of the Secretary of Defense to serve as the official or entity (as the case may be) with principal responsibility in the Department of Defense for providing oversight of the registered sex offender management program of the Department. The official or entity designated under subsection
(a)shall— monitor compliance with Department of Defense Instruction 5525.20 and other relevant polices; compile data on members serving in the military departments who have been convicted of a qualifying sex offense, including data on the sex offender registration status of each such member; maintain statistics on the total number of active duty service members in each military department who are required to register as sex offenders; and perform such other duties as the Secretary of Defense determines to be appropriate. Not later than June 1, 2019, the Secretary of Defense shall provide to the Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives a briefing on— the compliance of the military departments with the policies of the Department of Defense relating to registered sex offenders; the results of the data compilation described in subsection (b)(2); and any other matters the Secretary determines to be appropriate. In this section, the term military departments has the meaning given that term in section 101(a)(8) of title 10, United States Code.