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SENATE BILL 6558
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State of Washington 54th Legislature 1996 Regular Session
By Senators Roach, Smith, Oke and Swecker
Read first time 01/17/96. Referred to Committee on Human Services & Corrections.
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 the central registry in a form that is accessible to the public electronically through the internet or other computer network widely available to the general public. The state patrol shall include, at a minimum, the information required by RCW 9A.44.130(2) (a) through (g). The state patrol shall maintain the electronic central registry in a form that is searchable within specific areas or jurisdictions and, if feasible within available funds, shall 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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