Bill > H1718

This bill requires the Sex Offender Registry Board (SORB) to collect and compile data to assess the agency's reliability, effectiveness, and impact, and to evaluate the accuracy of its classification system. The bill mandates the SORB to submit an annual report by October 31st, including data on the number of individuals on the registry, the number of individuals classified at each level, the changes in classification levels, the cases remanded to the SORB, the requests for classification level reduction, the petitions to increase classification levels, and the recidivism rates of offenders at each classification level. The bill also requires the SORB to quantify the factors and their correlation with recidivism, the reliability of the scores, and a covariation matrix of the items and total scores.

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https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/H1718