New York § 9 - 9Access to information of incarcerated individuals via the internet

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

§ 9. Access to information of incarcerated individuals via the internet. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, any information relating to the conviction of a person that is posted on a website maintained by or for the department, under article six of the public officers law, may be posted on such website for a period not to exceed three years after the expiration of such person's sentence of imprisonment and at the conclusion of any period of parole or post-release supervision; provided further, however, that any such website that allows the public to search for incarcerated individual information shall be programmed in such a manner that the search may be successful by input of the incarcerated individual's current name, any former legal name or any other known alias of the incarcerated individual. To the extent the department collects an individual's current name, former legal name, or any known alias from government records utilized by the department, the department shall ensure that such information is input into any website created pursuant to this section, provided, however, that nothing in this section shall be construed to require the department to obtain and input into the department's electronic record-keeping applications any individual's otherwise uncollected former legal name or any alias.