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Senate Bill 689 |
Senate Author: Shapiro et al. |
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Effective: 9-1-09 |
House Sponsor: Pena et al. |
Senate Bill 689 amends the Code of Criminal Procedure and the Government Code to prohibit certain defendants who are released to community supervision or on parole and required to register as a sex offender from using the Internet to access obscene material or commercial networking sites and to communicate with individuals who are younger than 17 years of age. The bill provides that a court may modify these terms under certain circumstances. The bill provides for the release of all relevant information contained in the computerized central database maintained under the sex offender registration program that is not considered public information to certain law enforcement personnel, authorizes the release of information relating to online identifiers to commercial social networking sites and sets forth procedures for and limitations on the use of this information by the site or the site's agent. The bill expands the personal information about an offender required to be included on a sex offender registration form and required to be omitted in prerelease and change of address notification to the superintendent of a public school district or administrator of a private or secondary school within the public school district. The bill sets forth provisions requiring a person subject to sex offender registration to notify certain authorities of a change in the person's online identifier.