Requires any level three sex offender who has committed a violent crime against a child to wear an electronic monitoring device for life; provides that such sex offender shall bear the cost of such device.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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9194
IN ASSEMBLY
March 27, 2014
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Introduced by M. of A. SIMANOWITZ -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Correction
AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to requiring certain
level three sex offenders to wear an electronic monitoring device for
life
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (b-2) of subdivision 2 of section 168-f of the
2 correction law, as added by section 2 of part O of chapter 56 of the
3 laws of 2005, is amended to read as follows:
4 (b-2) If the sex offender has been given a level three designation, he
5 or she shall personally appear at the law enforcement agency having
6 jurisdiction within twenty days of the first anniversary of the sex
7 offender's initial registration and every year thereafter during the
8 period of registration for the purpose of providing a current photograph
9 of such offender. The law enforcement agency having jurisdiction shall
10 photograph the sex offender and shall promptly forward a copy of such
11 photograph to the division. For purposes of this paragraph, if such sex
12 offender is confined in a state or local correctional facility, the
13 local law enforcement agency having jurisdiction shall be the warden,
14 superintendent, sheriff or other person in charge of the state or local
15 correctional facility. Such sex offender who has been convicted of any
16 violent crime against a child shall wear an electronic monitoring device
17 for the duration of his or her life. Such sex offender shall bear the
18 cost of such electronic monitoring device.
19 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
20 it shall have become a law and shall apply to any level three sex offen-
21 der convicted of any violent crime against a child on or after the
22 effective date of this act.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD11374-01-3
