§ 9 — Access to information of incarcerated individuals via the internet

§ 9. Access to information of incarcerated individuals via the\ninternet. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, any\ninformation relating to the conviction of a person that is posted on a\nwebsite maintained by or for the department, under article six of the\npublic officers law, may be posted on such website for a period not to\nexceed three years after the expiration of such person's sentence of\nimprisonment and at the conclusion of any period of parole or\npost-release supervision; provided further, however, that any such\nwebsite that allows the public to search for incarcerated individual\ninformation shall be programmed in such a manner that the search may be\nsuccessful by input of the incarcerated individual's current name, any\nformer legal name or any other known alias of the incarcerated\nindividual. To the extent the department collects an individual's\ncurrent name, former legal name, or any known alias from government\nrecords utilized by the department, the department shall ensure that\nsuch information is input into any website created pursuant to this\nsection, provided, however, that nothing in this section shall be\nconstrued to require the department to obtain and input into the\ndepartment's electronic record-keeping applications any individual's\notherwise uncollected former legal name or any alias.\n