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HF 2688 Senate Long Description

Relating to crime preventionARTICLE 1 APPROPRIATIONSAppropriating money to the commissioner of corrections for an increase in the number of probation officers managing intensive supervised release caseloads, for enhanced supervision of adult felony sex offenders through caseload reduction and for sex offenders release community notification costs, to the commissioner of public safety for criminal justice technology infrastructure improvements, for electronic fingerprint capture and photographic identification technology and for additional bandwidth for fingerprint and identification data transfer purposes, for grants to transfer and access data from government agencies to the statewide hot file probation and pretrial release data system and for the bureau of criminal apprehension (BCA) for certain additional positions and for costs relating to interfacing the state system with the national sex offender registry, to the sentencing guidelines commission to establish a pilot project in Ramsey county to use the statewide statute table to ensure accurate and uniform charging on criminal complaints and to the supreme court to begin redevelopment of the court information system to be used by counties to integrate court information with other criminal justice informationARTICLE 2 PREDATORY OFFENDER REGISTRATION AND COMMUNITY NOTIFICATION PROVISIONSExpanding and modifying the predatory sex offenders registration law; requiring the registration of persons convicted or adjudicated delinquent of similar crimes pursuant to a court martial, persons convicted or adjudicated delinquent in another state entering the state to reside, work or attend school and persons committed as sexually dangerous under similar laws of other states or the federal government, procedure; providing for public disclosure by the bureau of criminal apprehension through electronic, computerized or other accessible means of certain information on predatory offenders failing to comply with registration requirements, requiring court notice of the availability of the information to persons required to register, BCA liability immunity provision; requiring registration information to include a written consent form signed by the person required to register allowing treatment facilities to release information to law enforcement officers relating to admission to or residence in the facilities; specifying the information required to be provided by persons required to register to corrections agents or law enforcement authorities, authorizing photographs for forwarding to the BCA; increasing the criminal penalties for failing to comply with registration requirements and imposing a mandatory minimum sentence, requiring lifetime registration of certain offenders; providing for application of the registration requirements; requiring registration under the law for certain other offenses; expanding and clarifying the scope of the community notification law relating to the release from confinement of sex offenders; changing the term sex offender to predatory offender and modifying the definition to include predatory offenders required to register under the predatory offenders registration law, excluding persons required to register based solely on a delinquency adjudication; extending the waiting period for end of confinement review committee reassessment and prohibiting requests for reassessment by incarcerated offenders; requiring the commissioner of corrections to create and maintain an Internet web site for the mandatory posting of certain information relating to level III sex offenders, specifying certain updating and maintenance requirements; clarifying civil liability immunity for state or local agencies or officials or private organizations or individuals acting on behalf of agencies or officials for failing to disclose certain information; requiring the superintendent of the BCA to maintain a computerized data system relating to individuals required to register as predatory offenders and to make the information readily available to law enforcement agencies; requiring the superintendent of the BCA to report to the legislature by a certain date on money spent and the implementation of policy changes ARTICLE 3 NAME CHANGE PROVISIONSRestricting court granting of name changes to convicted felons; prohibiting the use by felons of a different surname after marriage, marriage dissolution or legal separation or with the intent to defraud or mislead without complying with the name change procedure, penalty for violation, requiring and prescribing a procedure for application notice to the prosecuting authority obtaining the felony conviction or to the attorney general, requiring the filing of certain proofs of service, providing for the filing of objection by prosecuting authorities or the attorney general under certain conditions to prevent court or county granting of the name change, time limit, providing for convicted felon contesting of the objection and establishing a constitutional right to a name change under certain conditions, penalty for violation; placing conditions on court issuance of name changes as part of the marriage license application or marriage dissolution procedures ARTICLE 4 CRIMINAL AND EXPUNGEMENT PROVISIONSProsecution or conviction for a sexual offense with force or violence not to bar conviction of or punishment for other crimes committed by the defendant as part of the same conduct, authorizing consecutive sentences; requiring a mandatory minimum sentence for offenders convicted of first criminal sexual conduct; clarifying the definitions of child and solicit relating to solicitation of children to engage in sexual conduct; establishing prosecution jurisdiction for sexual offenses; including harassment by electronic means in the definition of the crime of harassment; clarifying certain provisions providing for the expungement of criminal records; extending the statute of limitations for crimes resulting in the death of the victim, for kidnapping and for certain criminal sexual conduct offenses under certain evidence collection and preservation conditionsARTICLE 5 - CRIMINAL JUSTICE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND INTEGRATIONModifying the membership of the criminal and juvenile justice information policy group; modifying the grant local match requirement, requiring recipient certification of nonreduction of other funds available to improve or integrate criminal justice technology; specifying certain duties of the policy group and the commissioner of public safety relating to criminal justice technology infrastructure improvements; requiring the commissioner of public safety, the supreme court and the executive director of the sentencing guidelines commission to report to the legislature by a certain date on technology infrastructure improvements, on court information system redevelopment and on the Ramsey county pilot project respectively; requiring the policy group to develop recommended standards to measure the effectiveness of the use of technology infrastructure improvements and report to the legislature by the same date ARTICLE 6 DATA PRACTICES PROVISIONSProviding for the disclosure of the current address of Minnesota family investment program (MFIP), general assistance (GA), general assistance medical care (GAMC) and food stamp recipients to law enforcement agencies; requests for data disclosure through computer interface systems to be considered requests in writing; granting law enforcement officers access to certain public housing and workers compensation data relating to persons required to register under the predatory offender law and not residing at the registered address (Ch. 311, 2000)