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Sex offenders are facing stricter laws due to a proposed legislation by Governor David Paterson. Paterson wants to expand the "Sex Offender Registration Act" to keep better track of offenders and make it more difficult for sex offenders to find loopholes.
The provisions within the legislation include:
• Make it a felony for a sex offender to fail to report his or her address as required, even if he or she has not moved from that address.
• Clarify that individuals convicted of sexually motivated felonies must register as sex offenders.
• Ensure that all sex offenders registered in other states who move to New York are required to register here.
• Require that Level 2 sex offenders have a new photograph taken every year, rather than every three years.
• Authorize a local law enforcement agency providing community notification concerning a Level 2 sex offender to provide the exact address. Now, local law enforcement agencies may only notify the public of the approximate address based on zip code of a Level 2 sex offender.
• Require high-risk sex offenders and sexual predators to personally appear before the local law enforcement agency within 10 days of release or relocation, instead of the current 90 days.
• Require judges to find mitigating factors before they can designate teenagers who commit high-level sex offenses as youthful offenders who do not have to register as sex offenders.
• Make it a felony for a sex offender to fail to report his or her address as required, even if he or she has not moved from that address.
• Clarify that individuals convicted of sexually motivated felonies must register as sex offenders.
• Ensure that all sex offenders registered in other states who move to New York are required to register here.
• Require that Level 2 sex offenders have a new photograph taken every year, rather than every three years.
• Authorize a local law enforcement agency providing community notification concerning a Level 2 sex offender to provide the exact address. Now, local law enforcement agencies may only notify the public of the approximate address based on zip code of a Level 2 sex offender.
• Require high-risk sex offenders and sexual predators to personally appear before the local law enforcement agency within 10 days of release or relocation, instead of the current 90 days.
• Require judges to find mitigating factors before they can designate teenagers who commit high-level sex offenses as youthful offenders who do not have to register as sex offenders.
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