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                    SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 6558

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State of Washington      54th Legislature     1996 Regular Session

By Senate Committee on Human Services & Corrections (originally sponsored by Senators Roach, Smith, Oke and Swecker)

Read first time 02/02/96.

Requiring the state patrol to maintain the central registry of sex offenders on the internet.

    AN ACT Relating to dissemination of sex offender information; and amending RCW 43.43.540.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

    Sec. 1.  RCW 43.43.540 and 1990 c 3 s 403 are each amended to read as follows:

    The county sheriff shall forward the information and fingerprints obtained pursuant to RCW 9A.44.130 to the Washington state patrol within five working days.  The state patrol shall maintain a central registry of sex offenders required to register under RCW 9A.44.130 and shall adopt rules consistent with chapters 10.97, 10.98, and 43.43 RCW as are necessary to carry out the purposes of RCW 9A.44.130, 9A.44.140, 10.01.200, 43.43.540, 46.20.187, 70.48.470, and 72.09.330.  The Washington state patrol shall reimburse the counties for the costs of processing the sex offender registration, including taking the fingerprints and the photographs.

The state patrol shall maintain a copy of any information disclosed by a public agency pursuant to RCW 4.24.550 in a form that is accessible to the public electronically through the internet or other computer network widely available to the general public, and searchable within specific areas or jurisdictions.  If feasible within available funds, the state patrol shall also include a photograph of the sex offender.  The state patrol shall remove from the electronic central registry information about a sex offender at the time the sex offender's duty to register under RCW 9A.44.140 expires.

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