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AL SB471
Bill
Status
2/25/2010
Primary Sponsor
Rodger Smitherman
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AI Summary
SB471 Summary
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Extensively amends Alabama's sex offender registration and community notification laws, including expanded definitions of terms such as "adult criminal sex offender," "criminal sex offense," "sexually violent predator," "required online identifier," and "temporary lodging information."
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Increases the pre-release registration timeline from 45 days to 180 days for adult criminal sex offenders and requires in-person registration changes for residence, employment, and enrollment at schools with penalties for non-compliance.
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Establishes residency restrictions prohibiting adult criminal sex offenders from residing within 2,000 feet of schools, child care facilities, Boys and Girls Clubs, or YMCAs, and prohibits them from coming within 300 feet of former victims.
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Creates three new crimes: indecent exposure toward a child (Class C felony), video voyeurism (Class C felony), and aiding and abetting a convicted sex offender (Class C felony).
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Prohibits the Commissioner of Corrections from granting temporary leave or Christmas furloughs to prisoners convicted of criminal sex offenses and prohibits the Board of Pardons and Paroles from approving parole or pardon for persons convicted of criminal sex offenses.
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Becomes effective October 1, 2010.
Legislative Description
Sex offenders, adult and juvenile, community punishment and corrections program and community notification procedures, definitions, release, registration, residence, employment, education, probation, crimes of indecent exposure toward a child, aiding and abetting a convicted sex offender, and video voyeurism established, penalties, Secs. 15-20-21.1, 15-20-24.1, 15-20-24.2, 15-20-25.4, 15-20.26.3, 15-20-39 added; Secs. 15-18-171, 15-20-20.1, 15-20-21, 15-20-22, 15-20-23, 15-20-23.1, 15-20-24, 15-20-25, 15-20-25.1, 15-20-25.2, 15-20-25.3, 15-20-26, 15-20-26.2, 15-20-28, 15-20-29, 15-20-30, 15-20-31, 15-20-32, 15-20-33, 15-20-34, 15-30-35, 15-20-36, 15-22-28, 15-22-36 am'd.
Crimes and Offenses
Last Action
Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Judiciary
2/25/2010