Bill > A1585

Introduced Session

This bill requires persons who are required to register as a sex offender to provide notification of that fact on social networking websites. The bill expands sex offender registration requirements to include this disclosure on the offender's profile on any social networking sites. In addition, the bill requires any person required to register as a sex offender to provide the appropriate law enforcement agency with a list of e-mail addresses, screen names, or other identities used for web-based chats, instant messaging, or a social networking website. This bill also requires registered sex offenders to provide a list of any social networking websites of which they are a member. Several social networking sites, such as Facebook and Match.com, already prohibit sex offenders from using their sites in their terms of service. This bill is modeled on recently enacted Louisiana legislation.

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Kevin Rooney (R)*,  Scott Rumana (R)*, 

Introduced, Referred to Assembly Judiciary Committee (on 01/27/2016)