Bill Text: NY S04017 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits law enforcement agencies from releasing level one sex offender information to the general public over the internet.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-01-06 - REFERRED TO CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION [S04017 Detail]

Download: New_York-2009-S04017-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         4017
                              2009-2010 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                     April 7, 2009
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       Introduced  by  Sen.  HASSELL-THOMPSON  --  (at request of the Office of
         Court Administration) -- 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  the  sex  offender
         registration  act  and prohibiting the release of level one sex offen-
         ders 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.
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