Booking fees: crimes related to sex purchasing.

Existing law prohibits certain acts related to the exchange of money or other consideration for sex. Existing law authorizes a county to impose a fee for the administrative costs of booking or otherwise processing an arrested person upon the arresting agency. Prior law required a person convicted of a crime to be ordered to reimburse the arresting agency for these booking costs. Existing law makes a person who is driving under the influence and whose intoxicated driving proximately causes an incident liable for the cost of the emergency response to that incident, as specified. This bill would make a person lawfully arrested for an offense as a sex purchaser, as defined, liable to the arresting agency for booking costs, as specified. The bill would authorize the arrest agency to collect booking costs, as specified, and would require the arresting agency to offer an administrative hearing to the arrested person.