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- Referred to correction
- Delivered to assembly
- Passed senateVote 53–4
- Ordered to third reading cal.1117
- Committee discharged and committed to rules
- Reported and committed to finance
- Referred to crime victims, crime and correction
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Directs the commissioner of corrections and community supervision to obtain, on a quarterly basis, an updated list of elementary and secondary schools
In Assembly Committee · Correction · Sponsor Luis R. Sepúlveda
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Sponsor's memo
BILL NUMBER:S6600
Title of bill
An act to amend the executive law, directing the commissioner of corrections and community supervision to apply for quarterly listings of all elementary and secondary schools in the state
Purpose
To ensure that staff at the Parole Board and the Director of Probation and Correctional Alternatives has the most updated list of elementary and secondary schools so that such information can be used to ensure that level II and III registered sex offenders are not placed near such schools when such persons are either released from prison on parole or are placed on probation.
Summary of provisions
Section 1: Adds a new Executive Law section 259-f to direct the Commissioner of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS) to obtain, on a quarterly basis, an updated list of every elementary and secondary school in the state from Commissioner of Education.The purpose of this bill is to ensure that DOCCS has the latest information on the location of elementary and secondary schools. While there are not significant differences in such lists, new elementary and secondary schools do open up, and older schools are closed from time to time. However, the lists used by DOCCS and local probation departments do not reflect this new information. Hence, when conducting their work, DOCCS and local probation departments can accidentally place Level II and III sex offenders within 1,000 feet of such a school. Further, those sex offenders that at one point where not located within 1,000 feet of a school, can find themselves within such area when a new school is opened. This bill helps to remedy that situation for both new schools that open and those that close.
Justification
Under current law, DOCCS, and its Divisions of Parole and Probation & Correctional Alternatives have lists of all elementary and secondary schools in this State.This list is used by such divisions to ensure that registered level II and III sex offenders are not placed to live within 1,000 feet of a school. Further, this list is disseminated to local probation officers to ensure that those on probation are not allowed to live within 1,000 feet of a elementary or secondary school. It has come to the Senate sponsor's attention, that since the lists of schools used is not updated frequently, that such registered sex offenders can accidently be placed near new schools that have recently been built. Further, there have been sex offenders, while complying with the 1,000 foot distance requirement, at one point, may violate that requirement once a new school has been constructed. Further, such sex offenders have been precluded from an area even though a school has recently closed. This bill should help to remedy this situation.
Legislative history
New Bill
Fiscal implications
Minimal.
Effective date
Immediate.
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