STATE OF NEW YORK
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4059
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 2, 2017
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Introduced by Sen. LANZA -- 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 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:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 168-q of the correction law, as
2 amended by chapter 462 of the laws of 2014, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 1. The division shall maintain a subdirectory of level two and three
5 sex offenders. The subdirectory shall include the exact address, address
6 of the offender's place of employment and photograph of the sex offender
7 along with the following information, if available: name, physical
8 description, age and distinctive markings. Background information
9 including all of the sex offender's crimes of conviction that require
10 him or her to register pursuant to this article, modus of operation,
11 type of victim targeted, the name and address of any institution of
12 higher education at which the sex offender is enrolled, attends, is
13 employed or resides and a description of special conditions imposed on
14 the sex offender shall also be included. The subdirectory shall have sex
15 offender listings categorized by county and zip code. Such subdirectory
16 shall be made available at all times on the internet via the division
17 homepage. The information contained in the subdirectory shall be
18 searchable via the internet by the zip code for both the offender's
19 residence address and his or her place of employment. Any person may
20 apply to the division to receive automated e-mail notifications whenever
21 a new or updated subdirectory registration occurs in a geographic area
22 specified by such person. The division shall furnish such service at no
23 charge to such person, who shall request e-mail notification by county
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 and/or zip code on forms developed and provided by the division. E-mail
2 notification is limited to three geographic areas per e-mail account.
3 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
4 have become a law.