A majority of all the people I spoke with were uncertain of their legal obligations. One young man I spoke with, after recently testing HIV-positive and going on HIV medications, was criminally charged within six months of finding out his HIV status. He was rendered virally undetectable and understood that, if he took his medications, he wouldn't transmit. He thought he was acting in a reasonable manner and that he wouldn't be criminally charged. His doctor told him he was uninfectious, that he could have sex without condoms, and that he was not able to transmit the virus. He understood he was acting in a responsible, reasonable manner, and he was still criminally charged.
There is a lot of confusion out there. There is a context of fear, where people are uncertain of their legal obligations.
Also, no, there is no legal education. I think all the people I spoke with, after being incarcerated and serving their time, still said they had been provided with no education or support about how to disclose and felt more confused about disclosure and more trauma and stigma about disclosure than ever before. Therefore, even for the people who were sentenced, they still were uncertain.