Bill Text: NY A02491 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Prohibits law enforcement agencies from releasing level one sex offender information to the general public over the internet.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-06 - referred to correction [A02491 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-A02491-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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2491
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
January 16, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. O'DONNELL, AUBRY -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Correction
AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to the sex offender
registration act and prohibiting the release of level one sex offender
information 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 S 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.
LBD04713-01-5
