What's happening
This bill requires repeat sex offenders who fail to register or verify to wear a monitored location-tracking device during supervision.
Why it matters
Increases direct state oversight of repeat offenders. By requiring location-tracking devices for those with multiple registration violations, the bill significantly increases the ability of authorities to monitor repeat sex offenders during probation, parole, or post-release supervision.
Creates new criminal penalties for non-compliance with monitoring. Offenders who tamper with or fail to comply with the tracking device requirement face a new class D felony charge, allowing for additional prosecution and potential revocation of parole or probation.
Mandates agency responsibility for active monitoring. The supervising agency (such as probation or parole office) must not only install but also regularly and frequently monitor the location data, obligating agencies to allocate resources for ongoing surveillance and possibly raising privacy and operational concerns.
Targets a specific subset of offenders. The law applies only to those who have been found guilty of registration or verification violations on two or more occasions, focusing the increased scrutiny and penalties on individuals considered at higher risk for non-compliance.
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- Referred to correction
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Track Repeat Sex Offender Violators
In Senate Committee · Crime Victims, Crime And Correction · Sponsor Joseph A. Griffo
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STATE OF NEW YORK
2430
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 20, 2017
Introduced by M. of A. ORTIZ -- read once and referred to the Committee on Correction
AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to requiring sex offenders who repeatedly fail to register and verify to wear a locationtransmitting device
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Section 168-t of the correction law, as amended by chapter 373 of the laws of 2007, is amended to read as follows:
§ 168-t. Penalty. 1. Any sex offender required to register or to verify pursuant to the provisions of this article who fails to register or verify in the manner and within the time periods provided for in this article shall be guilty of a class E felony upon conviction for the first offense, and upon conviction for a second or subsequent offense shall be guilty of a class D felony. Any sex offender who violates the provisions of section one hundred sixty-eight-v of this article shall be guilty of a class A misdemeanor upon conviction for the first offense, and upon conviction for a second or subsequent offense shall be guilty of a class D felony. Any such failure to register or verify may also be the basis for revocation of parole pursuant to section two hundred fifty-nine-i of the executive law or the basis for revocation of probation pursuant to article four hundred ten of the criminal procedure law.
2. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, in addition to any other penalty provided in this section, any sex offender found guilty of a violation of this section on two or more occasions shall, if sentenced to probation, be required to wear at all times for the duration of the period of probation a location-transmitting device, and, if sentenced to a period of imprisonment, be required to wear at all times for the duration of any period of parole, conditional release or post-release supervision a location-transmitting device.
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(b) The location-transmitting device shall be attached to the sex offender by the agency supervising the sex offender and such agency shall regularly and frequently monitor the information transmitted by the location-transmitting device.
(c) Any sex offender who is required to be monitored pursuant to the provisions of this subdivision who violates such requirement shall upon conviction be guilty of a class D felony. Such violation may also be the basis for revocation of parole pursuant to section two hundred fifty-nine-i of the executive law or the basis for the revocation of probation pursuant to article four hundred ten of the criminal procedure law.
§ 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after it shall have become a law, provided that any rules and regulations necessary to implement the provisions of subdivision 2 of section 168-t of the correction law, as added by section one of this act, on its effective date are authorized and directed to be completed on or before such date.
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