STATE OF NEW YORK
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4017
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
April 7, 2009
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Introduced by Sen. HASSELL-THOMPSON -- (at request of the Office of
Court Administration) -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Crime Victims, Crime and
Correction
AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to the sex offender
registration act and prohibiting the release of level one sex offen-
ders over the internet to the general public
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph e of subdivision 2 of section 168-b of the
2 correction law, as amended by chapter 645 of the laws of 2005, is
3 amended to read as follows:
4 e. The division shall require that no information included in the
5 registry shall be made available except in the furtherance of the
6 provisions of this article, including, but not limited to, prohibiting
7 law enforcement agencies from releasing information about level one sex
8 offenders to the general public over the internet, as provided by para-
9 graph (a) of subdivision six of section one hundred sixty-eight-l of
10 this article.
11 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
12 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD10106-01-9
