Adds social security number, past home addresses, social media accounts, and online gamer information to the information required to be reported by a sex offender.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8538
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
May 20, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. LEVENBERG -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Correction
AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to the registration
information required to be reported by a sex offender
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section 168-b of the
2 correction law, as amended by chapter 67 of the laws of 2008, is amended
3 to read as follows:
4 (a) The sex offender's name, social security number, all aliases used,
5 date of birth, sex, race, height, weight, eye color, driver's license
6 number, past home addresses, current home address and/or expected place
7 of domicile, any internet accounts with internet access providers
8 belonging to such offender and internet identifiers that such offender
9 uses. For the purposes of this paragraph, "internet accounts" shall
10 include, but not be limited to, all social media accounts and online
11 gamer accounts belonging to such offender.
12 § 2. Subdivision 4 of section 168-f of the correction law, as amended
13 by chapter 67 of the laws of 2008, is amended to read as follows:
14 4. Any sex offender shall register with the division no later than ten
15 calendar days after any change of address, internet accounts with inter-
16 net access providers belonging to such offender, internet identifiers
17 that such offender uses, social media accounts, online gamer accounts or
18 [his or her] such offender's status of enrollment, attendance, employ-
19 ment or residence at any institution of higher education. A fee of ten
20 dollars, as authorized by subdivision eight of section one hundred
21 sixty-eight-b of this article, shall be submitted by the sex offender
22 each time such offender registers any change of address or any change of
23 [his or her] such offender's status of enrollment, attendance, employ-
24 ment or residence at any institution of higher education. Any failure or
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 omission to submit the required fee shall not affect the acceptance by
2 the division of the change of address or change of status.
3 § 3. Section 168-a of the correction law is amended by adding a new
4 subdivision 19 to read as follows:
5 19. "Online gamer account" means a user name or other name, or identi-
6 fying data that allows such individual or user to engage, spectate,
7 message, communicate, participate, or play on the internet, console,
8 gaming system, and/or network, in which other individuals can engage in
9 the same game, games, activities, or multiplayer features. An "online
10 gamer account" includes, but is not limited to, a console gaming
11 account, computer gaming account, user tag, user account, user name,
12 network account, X-box gamer tag, PlayStation Network name, Nintendo
13 Network ID, Nintendo Switch Online account/name, online multiplayer user
14 name, online multiplayer playing account, unique user name, or any other
15 profile and/or named account that allows such individual or user to
16 engage, spectate, message, communicate, participate, or play on the
17 internet, console, gaming system, and/or network, in which other indi-
18 viduals can engage in the same game, games, activities, or multiplayer
19 features.
20 § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.
