2010 Maryland Code
CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
TITLE 11 - VICTIMS AND WITNESSES
Subtitle 7 - Sex Offender Registration
Section 11-717 - Registration statements to be made available to public; posting on Internet.

§ 11-717. Registration statements to be made available to public; posting on Internet.
 

(a)  Department to make available registration statements; excluded information.-  

(1) The Department shall make available to the public registration statements or information about registration statements. 

(2) Information about registration statements shall include, in plain language that can be understood without special knowledge of the criminal laws of the State, a factual description of the crime of the offender that is the basis for the registration, excluding details that would identify the victim. 

(3) Registration information provided to the public may not include a sex offender's Social Security number, driver's license number, medical or therapeutic treatment, travel and immigration document numbers, and arrests not resulting in conviction. 

(b)  Posting on Internet.- The Department shall post on the Internet: 

(1) a current listing of each registrant's name and other identifying information; and 

(2) in plain language that can be understood without special knowledge of the criminal laws of the State, a factual description of the crime of the offender that is the basis for the registration, excluding details that would identify the victim. 

(c)  Internet access by public for forwarding information.- The Department, through an Internet posting of current registrants, shall: 

(1) allow the public to electronically transmit information the public may have about a registrant to the Department, a parole agent of a registrant, and each local law enforcement unit where a registrant resides or habitually lives or where a registrant who is not a resident of the State will work or attend school; and 

(2) provide information regarding the out-of-state registration status for each registrant who is also registered in another state as available through a national sex offender public registry website . 

(d)  E-mail notification on request.- The Department shall allow members of the public who live in a county in which a registrant is to reside or habitually live or where the registrant, if not a resident of the State, will work or attend school, by request, to receive electronic mail notification of the release from incarceration of the registered offender and the registration information of the offender. 

(e)  Regulations.- The Department shall establish regulations to carry out this section. 
 

[An. Code 1957, art. 27, § 792(j)(6); 2001, ch. 10, § 2; 2006 Sp. Sess., ch. 4; 2010, chs. 174, 175.]