Bill Text: NY S04061 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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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: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced) 2024-06-03 - SUBSTITUTED BY A4763A [S04061 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S04061-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4061

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 2, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sens. MANNION, PALUMBO -- 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 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 and 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
    23  that allows the public to search for incarcerated individual information

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD07804-01-3
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     1  shall be programmed in such a manner that the search may  be  successful
     2  by input of the incarcerated individual's current name, any former legal
     3  name or any other known alias of the incarcerated individual.
     4    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
     5  have become a law.