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West's Annotated Code of MarylandCriminal ProcedureEffective: October 1, 2010

West's Annotated Code of Maryland
Criminal Procedure (Refs & Annos)
Title 11. Victims and Witnesses (Refs & Annos)
Subtitle 7. Sex Offender Registration (Refs & Annos)
Effective: October 1, 2010
MD Code, Criminal Procedure, § 11-717
§ 11-717. Registration statements made available to public and listing registrants on the Internet
Currentness
Registration statements made available to the public
(a)(1) The Department shall make available to the public registration statements or information about registration statements.
(2) Information about registration statements shall include, in plain language that can be understood without special knowledge of the criminal laws of the State, a factual description of the crime of the offender that is the basis for the registration, excluding details that would identify the victim.
(3) Registration information provided to the public may not include a sex offender's Social Security number, driver's license number, medical or therapeutic treatment, travel and immigration document numbers, and arrests not resulting in conviction.
Internet posting of current registrant listings
(b) The Department shall post on the Internet:
(1) a current listing of each registrant's name and other identifying information; and
(2) in plain language that can be understood without special knowledge of the criminal laws of the State, a factual description of the crime of the offender that is the basis for the registration, excluding details that would identify the victim.
Members of public allowed to transmit information about registrants
(c) The Department, through an Internet posting of current registrants, shall:
(1) allow the public to electronically transmit information the public may have about a registrant to the Department, a parole agent of a registrant, and each local law enforcement unit where a registrant resides or habitually lives or where a registrant who is not a resident of the State will work or attend school; and
(2) provide information regarding the out-of-state registration status for each registrant who is also registered in another state as available through a national sex offender public registry website.
Electronic mail notifications to the public
(d) The Department shall allow members of the public who live in a county in which a registrant is to reside or habitually live or where the registrant, if not a resident of the State, will work or attend school, by request, to receive electronic mail notification of the release from incarceration of the registered offender and the registration information of the offender.
Regulations
(e) The Department shall establish regulations to carry out this section.

Credits

Added by Acts 2001, c. 10, § 2, eff. Oct. 1, 2001. Amended by Acts 2006, 1st Sp. Sess., c. 4, § 1, eff. June 22, 2006; Acts 2010, c. 174, § 1, eff. Oct. 1, 2010; Acts 2010, c. 175, § 1, eff. Oct. 1, 2010.
Formerly Art. 27, § 792.
MD Code, Criminal Procedure, § 11-717, MD CRIM PROC § 11-717
Current through legislation effective through April 9, 2023, from the 2024 Regular Session of the General Assembly. Some statute sections may be more current, see credits for details.
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