S 5872: Requires websites providing sex offender registry information to be searchable by the zip code of a registrant's employment.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5872 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE March 3, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. LANZA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Crime Victims, Crime and Correction AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to information contained in the sex offender registry The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 168-q of the correction law, as 2 amended by chapter 462 of the laws of 2014, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 1. The division shall maintain a subdirectory of level two and three 5 sex offenders. The subdirectory shall include the exact address, address 6 of the offender's place of employment and photograph of the sex offender 7 along with the following information, if available: name, physical 8 description, age and distinctive markings. Background information 9 including all of the sex offender's crimes of conviction that require 10 [him or her] such offender to register pursuant to this article, modus 11 of operation, type of victim targeted, the name and address of any 12 institution of higher education at which the sex offender is enrolled, 13 attends, is employed or resides and a description of special conditions 14 imposed on the sex offender shall also be included. The subdirectory 15 shall have sex offender listings categorized by county and zip code. 16 Such subdirectory shall be made available at all times on the internet 17 via the division homepage. The information contained in the subdirecto- 18 ry shall be searchable via the internet by the zip code for both the 19 offender's residence address and such offender's place of employment. 20 Any person may apply to the division to receive automated e-mail notifi- 21 cations whenever a new or updated subdirectory registration occurs in a 22 geographic area specified by such person. The division shall furnish 23 such service at no charge to such person, who shall request e-mail 24 notification by county and/or zip code on forms developed and provided EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD10485-01-5 
 S. 5872 2 1 by the division. E-mail notification is limited to three geographic 2 areas per e-mail account. 3 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 4 have become a law.