STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 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. LBD07804-01-3S. 4061 2 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.