Senate Approves Sex Offender Registry Bill
The South Dakota Senate unanimously approved a bill Thursday that will establish a statewide sex-offender registry on the Internet. The Web site will be run by the state Division of Criminal Investigation.
The bill, which goes now to the House, also requires the state to participate in the National Sex Offender Public Registry.
South Dakota is one of two states not currently doing that. The state sex-offender Web site will include names, addresses and descriptions of sex offenders, as well as descriptions of their crimes.
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State of South Dakota
EIGHTY-FIRST SESSION
LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY, 2006
772M0540 SENATE BILL NO. 150
Introduced by: Senators Abdallah, Broderick, Dempster, Earley, Gant, Gray, Greenfield, Hansen (Tom), Kelly, Knudson, Koskan, Lintz, McCracken, McNenny, Napoli, Schoenbeck, Smidt, Sutton (Dan), and Sutton (Duane) and Representatives Cutler, Boomgarden, Bradford, Brunner, Davis, Deadrick, Dennert, Dykstra, Faehn, Frost, Garnos, Gassman, Gillespie, Glenski, Hackl, Halverson, Hanks, Haverly, Heineman, Hennies, Hills, Howie, Hunhoff, Hunt, Jensen, Jerke, Klaudt, Koistinen, Kraus, Krebs, Kroger, McCoy, Michels, Miles, Murschel, Nelson, Novstrup, O'Brien, Olson (Ryan), Pederson (Gordon), Peters, Rausch, Rave, Rhoden, Rounds, Schafer, Sebert, Street, Tidemann, Tornow, Turbiville, Valandra, Van Etten, Van Norman, Vehle, Weems, Wick, and Willadsen
FOR AN ACT ENTITLED, An Act to require the state's participation in the National Sex Offender Public Registry and to provide for the posting of a state internet sex registry site.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA:
Section 1. That chapter 22-24B be amended by adding thereto a NEW SECTION to read as follows:
The Division of Criminal Investigation shall post and maintain on an internet site sex offender registration information including offender name, physical description and photograph, address, type of sex crime convicted of, previous convictions requiring registration as defined in § 22-24B-1, dates of commission and the dates of conviction of any sex crime committed, community safety zone restrictions, offense description, and the offender's status as an inmate, parolee, or person who has completed their correctional placement.
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The division shall update sex offender registration information on the internet site within five days of receipt from the registering agency. The division and the registering agency are not civilly or criminally liable for good faith conduct under this Act.
Section 2. That § 22-24B-11 be amended to read as follows:
22-24B-11. The Division of Criminal Investigation may make the file available to any regional or national registry of sex offenders and shall participate in the National Sex Offender Public Registry maintained by the United States Department of Justice . The division shall accept files from any regional or national registry of sex offenders and shall make such files available when requested pursuant to §§ 22-24B-1 to 22-24B-14, inclusive.
