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Friday, January 20, 2012

Ind. Law - Court's legislative update for 2012 - Week 3

The Indiana Judicial Center's legislative update for the 2012 session has been updated to include week #3. Scroll though to see the bills currently under consideration.

One item that caught my attention:

The House Courts and Criminal Code Committee heard HB 1204 regarding the sexual offender registry authored by Rep. Dermody.

Four amendments were introduced and adopted by consent. This legislation makes several changes to Indiana Code 11-8-8-22 concerning the sex offender registration provisions on access and registry information retention. The bill passed unanimously.

ILB: The committee meeting took place this morning, so the committee report with the text of the four amendments is not yet available.

Here is the digest to the introduced version:

Sex offender registry. Provides that certain sex offenders who are no longer required to register are not entitled to have their information (other than their addresses) purged from the registry. Specifies that persons who were previously required to register as sex offenders (as well as current sex offenders) are generally not permitted to restrict access to their conviction records.

Posted by Marcia Oddi on January 20, 2012 06:22 PM
Posted to Indiana Courts