SENATE DOCKET, NO. 1799        FILED ON: 1/14/2009

SENATE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 1557

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act Relative to Dissemination of Level 3 Sex Offenders Over Municipal Websites and Cable Access Channels..

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
 

SECTION 1.  Section 178K of chapter 6 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2006 Official Edition, is hereby amended by inserting after the word “offender.”, in line 141, the following sentence:-   A level 3 community notification plan shall also require that a municipality with an official cable access channel or a homepage website, dedicated and to and operated by such municipality, disseminate over the Internet on its municipal home page and on its official cable access channel the registration data, including a photograph and designation, of  level 3 offenders with a primary or secondary address in such municipality or who work or attend school in such municipality.   The board shall transmit such registration data to any municipality required to so disseminate such data over the internet or cable television.