Bill Text: NY S06231 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Senate Bill 6231 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Requires the division of criminal justice services to include all sex crimes of an offender on the registered sex offender database.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)

Status: (Passed) 2014-11-21 - SIGNED CHAP.462 [S06231 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-S06231-Amended.html

                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        6231--A
           Cal. No. 200
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 8, 2014
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       Introduced by Sens. MAZIARZ, GALLIVAN, LARKIN, O'BRIEN -- read twice and
         ordered  printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on
         Crime Victims, Crime and Correction -- reported  favorably  from  said
         committee,  ordered  to  first  and  second report, ordered to a third
         reading, passed by Senate and delivered  to  the  Assembly,  recalled,
         vote  reconsidered,  restored  to  third  reading, amended and ordered
         reprinted, retaining its place in the order of third reading
       AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to the posting of regis-
         tered sex offender's information
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Subdivision  1 of section 168-q of the correction law, as
    2  amended by chapter 532 of the laws  of  2011,  is  amended  to  read  as
    3  follows:
    4    1.  The  division shall maintain a subdirectory of level two and three
    5  sex offenders. The subdirectory shall include the exact address, address
    6  of the offender's place of employment and photograph of the sex offender
    7  along with the  following  information,  if  available:  name,  physical
    8  description,   age  and  distinctive  markings.  Background  information
    9  including ALL OF the sex offender's [crime] CRIMES  of  conviction  THAT
   10  REQUIRE HIM OR HER TO REGISTER PURSUANT TO THIS ARTICLE, modus of opera-
   11  tion,  type  of victim targeted, the name and address of any institution
   12  of higher education at which the sex offender is enrolled,  attends,  is
   13  employed  or  resides and a description of special conditions imposed on
   14  the sex offender shall also be included. The subdirectory shall have sex
   15  offender listings categorized by county and zip code. Such  subdirectory
   16  shall  be  made  available at all times on the internet via the division
   17  homepage. Any person may apply to  the  division  to  receive  automated
   18  e-mail notifications whenever a new or updated subdirectory registration
   19  occurs in a geographic area specified by such person. The division shall
   20  furnish  such  service  at  no  charge to such person, who shall request
   21  e-mail notification by county and/or zip code  on  forms  developed  and
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD07245-04-4
       S. 6231--A                          2
    1  provided  by  the  division.  E-mail  notification  is  limited to three
    2  geographic areas per e-mail account.
    3    S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
    4  it shall have become a law.