2021 New York Laws
COR - Correction
Article 8 - Community Supervision
203 - Regulations for Release of Certain Sex Offenders.

§  203.  Regulations  for  release  of  certain  sex offenders. 1. The
commissioner shall promulgate rules and regulations that  shall  include
guidelines  and  procedures on the placement of sex offenders designated
as level two or level three offenders pursuant to article six-C of  this
chapter.  Such  regulations shall provide instruction on certain factors
to be considered when investigating and approving the residence of level
two or level  three  sex  offenders  released  on  presumptive  release,
parole,  conditional  release  or post-release supervision. Such factors
shall include the following:
  (a) the location of other sex offenders required to register under the
sex  offender  registration  act,  specifically  whether  there   is   a
concentration  of registered sex offenders in a certain residential area
or municipality;
  (b) the number of registered sex offenders residing  at  a  particular
property;
  (c) the proximity of entities with vulnerable populations;
  (d)  accessibility  to  family  members,  friends  or other supportive
services, including, but not limited to, locally available sex  offender
treatment  programs  with  preference  for placement of such individuals
into programs that  have  demonstrated  effectiveness  in  reducing  sex
offender recidivism and increasing public safety; and
  (e)  the  availability of permanent, stable housing in order to reduce
the likelihood that such offenders will be transient.
  2. The department shall  have  the  duty,  prior  to  the  release  to
community  supervision  of an incarcerated individual designated a level
two or three sex offender pursuant to the sex offender registration act,
to provide notification to the local social  services  district  in  the
county  in  which  the  incarcerated  individual expects to reside, when
information available or any other pre-release procedures indicates that
such incarcerated individual is likely to seek to  access  local  social
services for homeless persons. The department shall provide such notice,
when   practicable,   thirty  days  or  more  before  such  incarcerated
individual's release, but in any event, in advance of such  incarcerated
individual's  arrival  in the jurisdiction of such local social services
district.