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A3621Assembly2019-2020 Session

Keep Sex Offenders Away From Schools

Official title

“Provides for employment limits for level three sex offenders to outside a five hundred feet radius of a daycare or school”

Sponsor Aileen GuntherAD-100+8 co-sponsorsAffects Public Safety & Consumer Affairs
Status
In Assembly Committee
Correction
Impact
6/10
Moderate
Passage
0%

Bill progress

Step 2 of 7

In committee · Correction

What's happening

This bill prohibits level three sex offenders from working within 500 feet of schools or day care facilities, making violations a felony.

Why it matters

  1. Expands barriers to employment for level three sex offenders. , which can significantly affect their ability to find jobs, potentially impacting their reintegration and stability after release.

  2. Places new legal responsibilities on employers. , requiring them to actively screen and prevent level three sex offenders from being placed within 500 feet of schools or day care facilities—failure to comply could bring legal consequences.

  3. Makes violations a felony for offenders. , raising the stakes for compliance and creating a strong deterrent, but also increasing the risk of criminal justice involvement for those seeking employment.

  4. Ties restrictions directly to sex offender registry status. , meaning anyone classified as level three remains subject to these limits indefinitely, unless their registry level changes, potentially resulting in life-long employment barriers.

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Keep Sex Offenders Away From Schools

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Sponsors

Primary sponsor
Aileen Gunther

Assembly Member · Assembly District 100

History

  1. Referred to correction
  2. Referred to correction

Full text

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STATE OF NEW YORK

3621

2019-2020 Regular Sessions

IN ASSEMBLY

January 29, 2019

Introduced by M. of A. GUNTHER, GALEF, CRESPO, ZEBROWSKI, OTIS, RAIA, PALUMBO, STEC, WALSH -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. ABBATE, CROUCH, MOSLEY, PERRY, RIVERA -- read once and referred to the Committee on Correction

AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to employment limitations for level three sex offenders

The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

Section 1. Section 168-w of the correction law, as relettered by chapter 604 of the laws of 2005, is renumbered section 168-x and a new section 168-w is added to read as follows:

§ 168-w. Level three sex offenders employment limitation; penalty. 1. It shall be unlawful for any level three sex offender to work within five hundred feet of any public or private nursery, elementary or secondary school or licensed day care facility.

2. No employer shall knowingly permit or cause the placement of any level three sex offender at any work location within five hundred feet of any public or private nursery, elementary or secondary school or licensed day care facility.

3. The employment prohibition established by subdivisions one and two of this section shall remain in effect for as long as the offender is classified as a level three sex offender.

4. A sex offender who knowingly violates the provisions of subdivision one of this section shall be guilty of a class E felony.

§ 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeeding the date upon which it shall have become a law.

EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

[ ] is old law to be omitted.

LBD00478-01-9

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