STATE OF NEW YORK
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5288--A
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 3, 2011
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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 -- recommitted to the Committee on Crime Victims, Crime and
Correction in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee
discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
to said committee
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 532 of the laws of 2011, 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 the sex offender's crime of conviction, modus of operation,
10 type of victim targeted, the name and address of any institution of
11 higher education at which the sex offender is enrolled, attends, is
12 employed or resides and a description of special conditions imposed on
13 the sex offender shall also be included. The subdirectory shall have sex
14 offender listings categorized by county and zip code. Such subdirectory
15 shall be made available at all times on the internet via the division
16 homepage. The information contained in the subdirectory shall be
17 searchable via the internet by the zip code for both the offender's
18 residence address and his or her place of employment. Any person may
19 apply to the division to receive automated e-mail notifications whenever
20 a new or updated subdirectory registration occurs in a geographic area
21 specified by such person. The division shall furnish such service at no
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 charge to such person, who shall request e-mail notification by county
2 and/or zip code on forms developed and provided by the division. E-mail
3 notification is limited to three geographic areas per e-mail account.
4 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
5 have become a law.
