What's happening
This bill requires sex offenders in New York to register address or status changes within five days instead of ten.
Why it matters
Speeds up notification requirement for sex offenders. , potentially allowing law enforcement and the public to be informed sooner about address or status changes, which may enhance community safety and monitoring.
Shortens the window for potential non-compliance. offenders now have less time to avoid detection or disappear before being subject to penalties for failing to report changes, which could reduce the risk of absconding.
Applies to more than just address changes. The five-day rule also covers changes in internet accounts, internet identifiers, and affiliation with higher education institutions, reflecting concerns about online activity and campus safety.
Maintains the existing $10 fee. for each registration update, so the financial burden for offenders remains unchanged, but the administrative process must now operate on a tighter timeline.
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Faster Sex Offender Registration
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Sponsors
8 Co-sponsors
History
- Referred to correction
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STATE OF NEW YORK
3188
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 27, 2017
Introduced by M. of A. McKEVITT, RAIA, GRAF, CROUCH, McLAUGHLIN, SALADI- NO, FINCH -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. COLTON, GOODELL, HAWLEY, McDONOUGH, OAKS, PALMESANO, STEC, THIELE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Correction
AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to registering with the sex offender registry no later than five days after any change of address
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 168-f of the correction law, as amended by chapter 67 of the laws of 2008, is amended to read as follows:
4. Any sex offender shall register with the division no later than [ten] five calendar days after any change of address, internet accounts with internet access providers belonging to such offender, internet identifiers that such offender uses, or his or her status of enrollment, attendance, employment or residence at any institution of higher education. A fee of ten dollars, as authorized by subdivision eight of section one hundred sixty-eight-b of this article, shall be submitted by the sex offender each time such offender registers any change of address or any change of his or her status of enrollment, attendance, employment or residence at any institution of higher education. Any failure or omission to submit the required fee shall not affect the acceptance by the division of the change of address or change of status.
§ 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD04677-01-7
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