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- Referred to crime victims, crime and correction
- Referred to crime victims, crime and correction
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Provides for employment limits for level three sex offenders to outside a five hundred feet radius of a daycare or school
In Assembly Committee · Correction · Sponsor Aileen Gunther
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BILL NUMBER:S642
Title of bill
An act to amend the correction law, in relation to employment limitations for level three sex offenders
Summary of provisions
Section 1 adds a new section 168-qq to the Corrections Law. This new section limits where a level three sex offender may work. Subdivision 1 provides that it is unlawful for any level three sex offender to work within 500 feet of any public or private school or licensed day care facility. Subdivision 2 provides that no employer shall knowingly permit or cause the placement of any level three sex offender at any work location within 500 feet of any public or private school or licensed day care center. Subdivision 3 provides that the restrictions in subdivisions 1 and 2 shall remain in effect so long as an offender is classified as a level three offender. Subdivision 4 provides that a sex offender who violates subdivision 1 of this section shall be guilty of a class E felony.
Section 2 provides that the act shall take effect on the first of November next succeeding the date upon which it shall have become law.
Purpose and justification
To restrict level three sex offenders from working within 500 feet of any school or day care facility.
Those identified as level three sex offenders are categorized as the most dangerous of all sex offenders. Many times, they have been convicted of terrible crimes, often against young children. They have also been identified as a continuing risk to the community. As such, it is important to protect the public, and especially our young people, from situations that place them in continuing proximity to these convicted offenders that have been deemed a high risk. Recently, there was a circumstance where a level three sex offender was working in a building only a parking lot away from an elementary school. This bill will add greater protection for our children by placing them a safe distance away from these highest level offenders.
Existing law
Article 6-C of the Corrections Law provides for registration of convicted sex offenders.
Prior legislative history
2010: S.2107/A.822 - Referred to Crime Victims, Crime & Correction 2008: S.2327/A.7033 - Referred to Crime Victims, Crime & Correction 2006: S.4937/A.8229 - Passed Senate
Fiscal implications
None.
Local fiscal implications
None.
Effective date
November 1st of year next following date of enactment.
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