What's happening
This bill requires sex offenders to report their social security numbers, past home addresses, IP addresses, and social media accounts.
Why it matters
Expands the scope of personal information that sex offenders must disclose to authorities. , which could improve law enforcement’s ability to monitor and track offenders, especially if they attempt to evade detection or change identities.
Requires registration of digital footprints. (IP addresses and social media accounts), targeting the ways offenders might use the internet to reoffend or hide activities, reflecting concerns about online exploitation and modern communication technology.
Mandates reporting of all past home addresses. , providing a more complete history for investigators and potentially aiding in solving cold cases or tracking patterns of movement and behavior.
Imposes a legal obligation to update this information within 10 days of any change. , with a fee for each registration update, which incentivizes compliance and regular monitoring but may also place administrative or financial burdens on offenders.
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Expand Sex Offender Registration
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- Held for consideration in correction
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STATE OF NEW YORK
8845
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
December 22, 2017
Introduced by M. of A. BARNWELL -- read once and referred to the Committee on Correction
AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to the registration information required to be reported by a sex offender
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section 168-b of the correction law, as amended by chapter 67 of the laws of 2008, is amended to read as follows:
(a) The sex offender's name, social security number, all aliases used, date of birth, sex, race, height, weight, eye color, driver's license number, past home addresses, current home address and/or expected place of domicile, any internet accounts with internet access providers belonging to such offender and internet identifiers that such offender uses. For the purposes of this paragraph, internet accounts shall include, but not be limited to, all IP addresses and social media accounts belonging to such offender.
§ 2. 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 calendar days after any change of address, internet accounts with internet access providers belonging to such offender, internet identifiers that such offender uses, IP addresses, social media accounts 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.
§ 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD13874-01-7
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