FINAL BILL REPORT

SSB 6488

C 118 L 02

Synopsis as Enacted

Brief Description:  Creating a statewide registered sex offender web site.

Sponsors:  Senate Committee on Human Services & Corrections (originally sponsored by Senators Costa, Long, T. Sheldon, Eide, Winsley, Hale, Spanel, Jacobsen, Rasmussen, Gardner and Oke).

Senate Committee on Human Services & Corrections

House Committee on Criminal Justice & Corrections

Background:  Community notification of level II and level III sex offenders can be provided through newspaper notices, flyers, and information kept at a sheriff's department or police department.  A public web site can be used in addition to current community notification procedures to provide citizens with relevant and necessary information for protection and to counteract danger created by a particular sex offender.

Summary:  The Washington Association of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs is required to create a web site with links to county web sites containing sex offender registration information.  Upon receiving funding, from a source other than the state, WASPC will create and maintain its own web site with sex offender registration information.

Votes on Final Passage:

Senate480

House930(House amended)

Senate470(Senate concurred)

Effective:  June 13, 2002