Relating to public safety; providing for the classification of data relating to the preparation of a petition to commit an individual as a sexual psychopathic personality or sexually dangerous person; removing the sunset on the provision governing internet access to the bureau of criminal apprehension (BCA) data; requiring the commissioner of corrections in consultation with the commissioner of employment and economic development (DEED) to develop and maintain a formal marketing plan to attract private sector businesses and industries to employ inmate services through MINNCOR industries; making technical corrections to certain fingerprinting provisions; changing advisory council on interstate adult offender supervision annual report due date; providing a registration procedure for predatory offenders being released from a correctional facility and not going to a new primary address; clarifying certain registration verification form notice requirements; requiring registration of persons convicted of a comparable offense in another state; permitting certain individuals facing civil commitment as sexually dangerous persons or sexual psychopathic personalities to choose to be confined temporarily in correctional facilities while the petition is being adjudicated; modifying and clarifying the time limit for hearings on civil commitment; allowing county attorneys to obtain access to certain data involving civil commitment cases under certain conditions; modifying the definition of facility to include the department of corrections facility for financial responsibility determination purposes; classifying certain BCA data as private; correcting the name of the entity responsible for the approval of the statewide public safety radio system from the public safety radio system planning committee to the statewide radio board; authorizing the judicial branch to accept credit cards, charge cards, debit cards and other methods of electronic funds transfer for government fees and payments ordered by a court; authorizing the judicial branch to impose a convenience fee; requiring a court to inquire whether the defendant is currently serving in the military or is a veteran diagnosed with a mental illness; requiring predatory offender registration checks against the bureau of criminal apprehension (BCA) database upon intake into a jail facility; providing for secure confinement of prisoners; modifying certain prior appropriations to the trial courts for maintenance and expansion of drug courts and to the board of public defense for caseload increases; requiring the commissioner of corrections to perform an internal review of department guidelines for parole revocation and supervised release, specifying assessment requirements and a legislative report by a certain date; requiring the state court administrator to convene a study group to consider the impacts of a presumption of joint physical custody and report to the legislature by a certain date; requiring the state court administrator to report to the legislature by a certain date on a plan to conduct a multidisciplinary comprehensive study on family law; establishing a working group to review, assess and make recommendations regarding the modification and application of controlled substance laws and requiring a report to the legislature by a certain date; repealing juvenile residential treatment grants, the juvenile restitution grant program, payments by credit cards and a provision relating to BCA e-charging responding to data requests
(Ch. 299, 2008)