Bill Text: NY S03536 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

---

Bill Title: Requires that websites providing inmate information be searchable by the inmate's name, former name or alias.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION [S03536 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S03536-Introduced.html

---

                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          3536
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    February 8, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by Sen. CARLUCCI -- 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 inmate information be searchable  by  the  inmate'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, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    § 9. Access to inmate information via  the  internet.  Notwithstanding
     5  any  provision  of  law to the contrary, any information relating to the
     6  conviction of a person, except for a person convicted of an offense that
     7  would make such person ineligible for merit  time  under  section  eight
     8  hundred  three of this chapter or an offense for which registration as a
     9  sex offender is required as set forth in subdivision  two  or  three  of
    10  section  one  hundred sixty-eight-a of this chapter, that is posted on a
    11  website maintained by or for the department, under article  six  of  the
    12  public  officers  law, may be posted on such website for a period not to
    13  exceed five years after the expiration  of  such  person's  sentence  of
    14  imprisonment  and  any  period  of  parole  or post-release supervision;
    15  provided, however, that in the case of a person who has  been  committed
    16  to  the  department  on  more than one occasion, the department may post
    17  conviction information relating to any prior commitment on such  website
    18  for  a  period  not  to  exceed  five years after the expiration of such
    19  person's sentence of imprisonment and any period of parole  or  post-re-
    20  lease supervision arising from the most recent commitment to the depart-
    21  ment;  provided  further, however, that any such website that allows the
    22  public to search for inmate information shall be programmed  in  such  a
    23  manner  that  the  search  may  be  successful  by input of the inmate's
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06296-01-9
        S. 3536                             2
     1  current name, any former legal name or any  other  known  alias  of  the
     2  inmate.
     3    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
     4  have become a law.