What's happening
This bill expands restrictions on employment and volunteer activities for registered sex offenders, prohibiting unsupervised access to residential living quarters.
Why it matters
Significantly expands barred job/volunteer roles for registered sex offenders. goes beyond current bans (like selling ice cream from trucks) to include any position that allows unsupervised access to people’s homes or residential facilities.
Targets jobs with heightened trust and vulnerability. specifically mentions positions such as superintendents, managers, maintenance workers in residential buildings, home health aides, and staff in assisted living facilities, aiming to protect residents from potential risk.
May affect housing and healthcare industries. landlords, property managers, and care facilities will have clearer legal grounds (and new legal responsibilities) to deny employment or volunteer roles to registered sex offenders for positions involving unsupervised access to living quarters.
Reflects a policy shift prioritizing safety in residential settings. the bill underscores a legislative intent to prevent situations where sex offenders could exploit trust associated with residential access, even if their role is not directly related to care or supervision of vulnerable populations.
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Limit Sex Offender Jobs
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- Referred to correction
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Limit Sex Offender Employment
In Senate Committee · Crime Victims, Crime And Correction · Sponsor Susan Serino
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STATE OF NEW YORK
8581
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
September 13, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. THIELE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Correction
AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to permissible employment, employment related activities, and volunteer activities that may be performed by convicted sex offenders
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Section 168-v of the correction law, as added by chapter 604 of the laws of 2005, is amended to read as follows:
§ 168-v. Prohibition of certain types of employment [on motor vehicles engaged in retail sales of frozen desserts] and employment related activities. No person required to maintain registration under this article (sex offender registration act) shall: (i) operate, be employed on or dispense goods for sale at retail on a motor vehicle engaged in retail sales of frozen desserts as defined in subdivision thirty-seven of section three hundred seventy-five of the vehicle and traffic law; or (ii) be permitted to work at or volunteer at any facility whereby the nature of the work would permit such person to have unsupervised access to residential living quarters including, but not limited to work as a residential building superintendent, manager, or maintenance worker, or a home health aide, or in an assisted living facility.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD06743-01-9
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