Bill Text: NJ S2540 | 2024-2025 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires use of email for certain community notification under Megan's Law.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-02-08 - Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Law and Public Safety Committee [S2540 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2024-S2540-Introduced.html

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SENATE, No. 2540

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

221st LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED FEBRUARY 8, 2024

 

 

Sponsored by:

Senator  JAMES BEACH

District 6 (Burlington and Camden)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Requires use of email for certain community notification under Megan's Law.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As introduced.

  

An Act concerning community notification and supplementing Title 2C of the New Jersey Statutes.

 

     Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

 

     1.    a.  The Attorney General shall provide a means for email notification to any person who requests to be notified pursuant to subsection b. of this section when a sex offender, whose registration information is posted on the Internet pursuant to P.L.2001, c.167 (C.2C:7-12 et seq.), registers a new address in a different county or zip code from the offender's previous address or when any other information concerning that sex offender is updated on the registry.

     b.    A person may request to receive notification by email pursuant to subsection a. of this section for updated information for not more than three counties or zip codes.

     c.     The Attorney General shall promulgate guidelines to effectuate the provisions of this act.

 

     2.    This act shall take effect on the first day of the seventh month after enactment.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill requires the Attorney General, upon request, to provide a means for email notification when a sex offender listed on the Internet registry registers a new address in a different county or zip code from the offender's previous address or when any other information concerning that sex offender is updated on the registry. 

     Under the bill, members of the public may request to receive this information by email for up to three counties or zip codes.  The notification by email provided under this bill supplements the current methods of notification.