Budget Amendment ID: FY2014-S3-70

JUD 70

SORB Information Sharing

Messrs. Tarr, Hedlund, Knapik and Ross moved that the proposed new text be amended by inserting after section _ the following section:-

SECTION _. Section 178P of chapter 6 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2010 Official Edition, is hereby amended by adding the following subsection:-

(2)  Whenever a police officer, district attorney, or agent, employee or representative of the office of health and human services has information that may be relevant to the assessment of a sex offender’s risk to reoffend or degree of dangerousness, the police department, district attorney, or health and human services agent, employee or representative shall forward to the board the information the basis of which said reasonable suspicion is based; provided, however, that a police department or district attorney shall not forward information to the board that it believes will compromise an ongoing investigation.