What are the conditions of probation for a convicted sex offender who accepts a probationary sentence?

When an offender accepts a probationary sentence, thereby avoiding incarceration, state law authorizes the sentencing court to impose conditions on such release as are "fitting and proper to the end that justice may be done, that amends may be made to society for the breach of the law, for any injury done to any person resulting from such breach and . . . for the reformation and rehabilitation of the probationer." ( 1203.1, subd. (j).) Accordingly, "[i]n granting probation, courts have broad discretion to impose conditions to foster rehabilitation and to protect public safety . . . ." (People v. Carbajal (1995) 10 Cal.4th 1114, 1120 (Carbajal).) The broad discretion granted to trial courts to impose probation conditions "is not without limits," however; "a condition of probation must serve a purpose specified in the statute," and conditions regulating noncriminal conduct must be " 'reasonably related to the crime of which the defendant was convicted or to future criminality.' " (Id. at p. 1121.) Therefore, a condition of probation is generally "invalid [only

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