NY State Senate Bill 2019-S3536

Senate Bill S3536

2019-2020 Legislative Session

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

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Crime Victims, Crime And Correction Committee

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- In Committee Senate
- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
Delivered to Governor
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2019-S3536 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:: Senate Crime Victims, Crime And Correction
Law Section:: Correction Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §9, Cor L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2011-2012: S7303
2013-2014: S1209
2015-2016: S1745
2017-2018: S785
2021-2022: S4812
2023-2024: S4061

2019-S3536 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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

2019-S3536 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                
 
BILL NUMBER: S3536

SPONSOR: CARLUCCI
 
TITLE OF BILL:

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

 
PURPOSE:

To allow the public to be able to search the Department of Corrections
inmate information database by the inmate's current legal name, their
former legal name, or any known alias.

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section 1. Amends section 9 of the correction law to provide that any
website that allows the public to search for inmate information will be
programmed in such a way to allow for the public to search by the
inmate's current name, any former legal name, or any other known alias

of the inmate.

Section 2. Effective date.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

When an inmate legally changes their name, the general public, and more
specifically victims of the inmate's crime, may not be made aware of
this name change. As a result, the public, and more importantly the
victim, will no longer be able to search for the inmate by the inmate's
former name. This causes significant problems for victims trying to
access information on the inmate. In order to make searching easier for
victims, the website that allows the public to search for inmate infor-
mation should be searchable by the inmate's current name and any former
name. This way, if a victim is unaware that an inmate has changed his or
her name, the victim will still be able to search for the inmate by his
or her former name.

 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

2017-16: S785 - PASSED SENATE
2015-16: S.1745 - Crime Victims, Crime and Correction Committee
2013-14: S.1209 - Finance Committee
2012: S.7303 - Crime Victims, Crime and Correction Committee

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

To be determined.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall have
become a law.

2019-S3536 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3536
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             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:
 
   Section 1. Section 9 of the correction law, as added by section  2  of
 part  OO  of  chapter  56  of  the  laws  of 2010, is amended to read as
 follows:
   § 9. Access to inmate information via  the  internet.  Notwithstanding
 any  provision  of  law to the contrary, any information relating to the
 conviction of a person, except for a person convicted of an offense that
 would make such person ineligible for merit  time  under  section  eight
 hundred  three of this chapter or an offense for which registration as a
 sex offender is required as set forth in subdivision  two  or  three  of
 section  one  hundred sixty-eight-a of this chapter, that is posted on a
 website maintained by or for the department, under article  six  of  the
 public  officers  law, may be posted on such website for a period not to
 exceed five years after the expiration  of  such  person's  sentence  of
 imprisonment  and  any  period  of  parole  or post-release supervision;
 provided, however, that in the case of a person who has  been  committed
 to  the  department  on  more than one occasion, the department may post
 conviction information relating to any prior commitment on such  website
 for  a  period  not  to  exceed  five years after the expiration of such
 person's sentence of imprisonment and any period of parole  or  post-re-
 lease supervision arising from the most recent commitment to the depart-
 ment;  PROVIDED  FURTHER, HOWEVER, THAT ANY SUCH WEBSITE THAT ALLOWS THE
 PUBLIC TO SEARCH FOR INMATE INFORMATION SHALL BE PROGRAMMED  IN  SUCH  A
 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
 
 CURRENT NAME, ANY FORMER LEGAL NAME OR ANY  OTHER  KNOWN  ALIAS  OF  THE
 INMATE.
   §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
 have become a law.

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