Bill Text: NY A04763 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires that websites providing incarcerated individual information be searchable by the incarcerated individual's name, former name or alias.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Enrolled) 2024-12-12 - delivered to governor [A04763 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A04763-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         4763--A
                                                                Cal. No. 133

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 23, 2023
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        Introduced  by M. of A. PEOPLES-STOKES, BURDICK, COLTON -- read once and
          referred to the Committee on Correction -- ordered to a third reading,
          amended and ordered reprinted, retaining its place  on  the  order  of
          third reading

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  correction  law,  in relation to requiring that
          websites providing incarcerated individual information  be  searchable
          by the incarcerated individual's name, former name or alias

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Section 9 of the correction law, as added by section  2  of
     2  part  OO  of  chapter  56  of  the  laws of 2010, the section heading as
     3  amended by chapter 322 of the laws  of  2021,  is  amended  to  read  as
     4  follows:
     5    §  9. Access to information of incarcerated individuals via the inter-
     6  net.  Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, any informa-
     7  tion relating to the  conviction  of  a  person,  except  for  a  person
     8  convicted of an offense that would make such person ineligible for merit
     9  time under section eight hundred three of this chapter or an offense for
    10  which  registration as a sex offender is required as set forth in subdi-
    11  vision two or three of section one hundred sixty-eight-a of  this  chap-
    12  ter,  that  is  posted on a website maintained by or for the department,
    13  under article six of the public officers law,  may  be  posted  on  such
    14  website  for  a  period not to exceed five years after the expiration of
    15  such person's sentence of imprisonment and any period of parole or post-
    16  release supervision; provided, however, that in the case of a person who
    17  has been committed to the department on  more  than  one  occasion,  the
    18  department may post conviction information relating to any prior commit-
    19  ment  on  such  website  for a period not to exceed five years after the
    20  expiration of such person's sentence of imprisonment and any  period  of
    21  parole  or post-release supervision arising from the most recent commit-
    22  ment to the department; provided further, however, that any such website

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD07804-05-4
        A. 4763--A                          2

     1  that allows the public to search for incarcerated individual information
     2  shall be programmed in such a manner that the search may  be  successful
     3  by input of the incarcerated individual's current name, any former legal
     4  name or any other known alias of the incarcerated individual.
     5    § 2. Section 9 of the correction law, as amended by chapter 631 of the
     6  laws of 2023, is amended to read as follows:
     7    §  9. Access to information of incarcerated individuals via the inter-
     8  net. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, any  informa-
     9  tion  relating to the conviction of a person that is posted on a website
    10  maintained by or for the department, under article  six  of  the  public
    11  officers  law,  may be posted on such website for a period not to exceed
    12  three years after the expiration of such person's sentence of  imprison-
    13  ment  and  at  the  conclusion  of  any period of parole or post-release
    14  supervision; provided further,  however,  that  any  such  website  that
    15  allows  the  public  to  search  for incarcerated individual information
    16  shall be programmed in such a manner that the search may  be  successful
    17  by input of the incarcerated individual's current name, any former legal
    18  name or any other known alias of the incarcerated individual.
    19    §  3.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    20  have become a law; provided, however, that if chapter 631 of the laws of
    21  2023 shall not have taken effect on or before such date then section two
    22  of this act shall take effect on the same date and in the same manner as
    23  such chapter of the laws of 2023, takes effect.