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Senate Bill S5872

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Requires website providing sex offender registry information to be searchable by the zip code of a registrant's employment

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Crime Victims, Crime And Correction Committee

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2025-S5872 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Crime Victims, Crime And Correction
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §168-q, Cor L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: S621
2011-2012: S5288
2013-2014: S4165
2015-2016: S3811
2017-2018: S4059
2019-2020: S388
2021-2022: S5412
2023-2024: S4296

2025-S5872 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires websites providing sex offender registry information to be searchable by the zip code of a registrant's employment.

2025-S5872 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S5872 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5872
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               March 3, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  LANZA  -- 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 information contained
   in the sex offender registry
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 168-q of the  correction  law,  as
 amended  by  chapter  462  of  the  laws  of 2014, is amended to read as
 follows:
   1. The division shall maintain a subdirectory of level two  and  three
 sex offenders. The subdirectory shall include the exact address, address
 of the offender's place of employment and photograph of the sex offender
 along  with  the  following  information,  if  available: name, physical
 description,  age  and  distinctive  markings.  Background   information
 including  all  of  the sex offender's crimes of conviction that require
 [him or her] SUCH OFFENDER to register pursuant to this  article,  modus
 of  operation,  type  of  victim  targeted,  the name and address of any
 institution of higher education at which the sex offender  is  enrolled,
 attends,  is employed or resides and a description of special conditions
 imposed on the sex offender shall also  be  included.  The  subdirectory
 shall  have  sex  offender  listings categorized by county and zip code.
 Such subdirectory shall be made available at all times on  the  internet
 via the division homepage.  THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THE SUBDIRECTO-
 RY  SHALL  BE  SEARCHABLE  VIA THE INTERNET BY THE ZIP CODE FOR BOTH THE
 OFFENDER'S RESIDENCE ADDRESS AND SUCH OFFENDER'S  PLACE  OF  EMPLOYMENT.
 Any person may apply to the division to receive automated e-mail notifi-
 cations  whenever a new or updated subdirectory registration occurs in a
 geographic area specified by such person.  The  division  shall  furnish
 such  service  at  no  charge  to  such person, who shall request e-mail
 notification by county and/or zip code on forms developed  and  provided
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD10485-01-5

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