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Assembly Bill A2491

2015-2016 Legislative Session

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

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2015-A2491 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Correction
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง168-b, Cor L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A7560
2011-2012: A7289
2013-2014: A4587
2017-2018: A4043
2019-2020: A4404

2015-A2491 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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

2015-A2491 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  2491

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 16, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. 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:

  Section  1.  Paragraph  e  of  subdivision  2  of section 168-b of the
correction law, as amended by chapter  645  of  the  laws  of  2005,  is
amended to read as follows:
  e.  The  division  shall  require  that no information included in the
registry shall be made  available  except  in  the  furtherance  of  the
provisions  of  this article, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROHIBITING
LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES FROM RELEASING INFORMATION ABOUT LEVEL ONE  SEX
OFFENDERS  TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC OVER THE INTERNET, AS PROVIDED BY PARA-
GRAPH (A) OF SUBDIVISION SIX OF SECTION  ONE  HUNDRED  SIXTY-EIGHT-L  OF
THIS ARTICLE.
  S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
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.
                                                           LBD04713-01-5

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