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34 U.S.C. § 20923Megan Nicole Kanka and Alexandra Nicole Zapp Community Notification Program

submitted 20 years ago by Pub. L. 109-248 to r/title-34-CRIME-CONTROL-AND-LAW-ENFORCEMENT · 251 words · no verdicts yet

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This section creates a notification program that alerts law enforcement, schools, and other groups whenever a sex offender registers or updates. Certain requesters can choose to get updates in batches instead of immediately.

(a) Establishment of Program. This section creates the Megan Nicole Kanka and Alexandra Nicole Zapp Community Notification Program, called "the Program" here. (b) Program notification. Except as subsection (c) allows, right after a sex offender registers or updates their registration, an appropriate official in that jurisdiction must send the registry information about that offender (minus anything the Attorney General exempts from disclosure) to: (1) the Attorney General, who adds it to the National Sex Offender Registry or other appropriate databases; (2) the relevant law enforcement agencies (including probation agencies, if appropriate), and every school and public housing agency, in each area where the offender lives, works, or studies; (3) every jurisdiction where the offender lives, works, or studies, and every jurisdiction the offender is moving from or to; (4) any agency that runs employment background checks under section 40102 of this title; (5) social service entities that protect minors in the child welfare system; (6) volunteer organizations where contact with minors or other vulnerable people might happen; and (7) any organization, company, or individual who asks for notification, following procedures the jurisdiction sets up. (c) Frequency. Despite subsection (b), an organization or individual described in (b)(6) or (b)(7) may choose to get these notifications in batches — no less often than once every five business days — instead of immediately.
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(a) Establishment of Program

There is established the Megan Nicole Kanka and Alexandra Nicole Zapp Community Notification Program (hereinafter in this section referred to as the “Program”).

(b) Program notification

Except as provided in subsection (c), immediately after a sex offender registers or updates a registration, an appropriate official in the jurisdiction shall provide the information in the registry (other than information exempted from disclosure by the Attorney General) about that offender to the following:

(1)

The Attorney General, who shall include that information in the National Sex Offender Registry or other appropriate databases.

(2)

Appropriate law enforcement agencies (including probation agencies, if appropriate), and each school and public housing agency, in each area in which the individual resides, is an employee or is a student.

(3)

Each jurisdiction where the sex offender resides, is an employee, or is a student, and each jurisdiction from or to which a change of residence, employment, or student status occurs.

(4)

Any agency responsible for conducting employment-related background checks under section 40102 of this title.

(5)

Social service entities responsible for protecting minors in the child welfare system.

(6)

Volunteer organizations in which contact with minors or other vulnerable individuals might occur.

(7)

Any organization, company, or individual who requests such notification pursuant to procedures established by the jurisdiction.

(c) Frequency

Notwithstanding subsection (b), an organization or individual described in subsection (b)(6) or (b)(7) may opt to receive the notification described in that subsection no less frequently than once every five business days.

Source credit: (Pub. L. 109–248, title I, § 121, July 27, 2006, 120 Stat. 597.)

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  • 2006Enacted · Pub. L. 109-248 · 120 Stat. 597

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