Bill Text: NY A04404 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


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

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to correction [A04404 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A04404-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          4404
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 4, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  WEPRIN,  O'DONNELL,  AUBRY  -- read once and
          referred to the Committee on Correction
        AN ACT to amend the correction law, in  relation  to  the  sex  offender
          registration act and prohibiting the release of level one sex offender
          information 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    § 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.
                                                                   LBD07253-01-9
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