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      22-4909.   Information subject to open records act; nondisclosure of certain information relating to victim; website posting; notification of schools and licensed day care facilities. (a) The statements or any other information required by this act shall be open to inspection by the public at the sheriff's office, at the headquarters of the Kansas bureau of investigation and on any internet website sponsored or created by a sheriff's department or the Kansas bureau of investigation that contains such statements or information, and specifically are subject to the provisions of the Kansas open records act, K.S.A. 45-215 et seq., and amendments thereto, except that the name, address, telephone number, or any other information which specifically and individually identifies the victim of any offender required to register as provided in this act shall not be disclosed other than to law enforcement agencies.

      (b)   Any information posted on an internet website sponsored or created by a sheriff's office or the Kansas bureau of investigation shall identify, in a prominent manner, whether an offender is or is not a sex offender.

      (c)   The state department of education shall annually notify any school upon which is located a structure used by a unified school district or an accredited nonpublic school for student instruction or attendance or extracurricular activities of pupils enrolled in kindergarten or any grades one through 12 of the Kansas bureau of investigation internet website and any internet website containing information on the Kansas offender registration sponsored or created by the sheriff of the county in which the school is located for the purposes of locating offenders who reside near such school.

      (d)   The secretary of health and environment shall annually notify any licensed child care facility of the Kansas bureau of investigation internet website and any internet website containing information on the Kansas offender registration sponsored or created by the sheriff of the county in which the facility is located for the purposes of locating offenders who reside near such facility.

      (e)   Such notification required in subsections (c) and (d) shall include information that the sheriff of the county where such school or child care facility is located is available to the school and child care facilities to assist in using the registry and providing additional information on the registered offenders.

      History:   L. 1993, ch. 253, § 25; L. 1994, ch. 107, § 7; L. 1997, ch. 181, § 14; L. 2001, ch. 208, § 16; L. 2005, ch. 202, § 2; July 1.