A10740-2011 Actions

• Jun 18, 2012: referred to correction

A10740-2011 Text

 S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 
 10740
 I N  ASSEMBLY
 June 18, 2012
 
 Introduced  by  COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Cusick) -
 read once and referred to the Committee on Correction
 

AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to information contained
 in the sex offender registry
 THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

 

Section  1.  Subdivision  1 of section 168-q of the correction law, as
 amended by chapter 532 of the laws  of  2011,  is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:

 1.  The  division shall maintain a subdirectory of level two and three
 sex offenders. The subdirectory shall include the exact address, address
 of the offender's place of employment and photograph of the sex offender
 along with the  following  information,  if  available:  name,  physical
 description,   age  and  distinctive  markings.  Background  information
 including the sex offender's crime of conviction,  modus  of  operation,
 type  of  victim  targeted,  the  name and address of any institution of
 higher education at which the sex  offender  is  enrolled,  attends,  is
 employed  or  resides and a description of special conditions imposed on
 the sex offender shall also be included. The subdirectory shall have sex
 offender listings categorized by county and zip code. Such  subdirectory
 shall  be  made  available at all times on the internet via the division
 homepage.   THE INFORMATION  CONTAINED  IN  THE  SUBDIRECTORY  SHALL  BE
 SEARCHABLE  VIA  THE  INTERNET  BY  THE ZIP CODE FOR BOTH THE OFFENDER'S
 RESIDENCE ADDRESS AND HIS OR HER PLACE OF  EMPLOYMENT.  Any  person  may
 apply to the division to receive automated e-mail notifications whenever
 a  new  or updated subdirectory registration occurs in a geographic area
 specified by such person. The division shall furnish such service at  no
 charge  to  such person, who shall request e-mail notification by county
 and/or zip code on forms developed and provided by the division.  E-mail
 notification is limited to three geographic areas per e-mail account.
 

S  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
 have become a law.
 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD03663-03-2

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