34 U.S.C. § 20923: Megan Nicole Kanka and…

Summary

Creates the Megan Nicole Kanka and Alexandra Nicole Zapp Community Notification Program. When someone required to register as a sex offender signs up or updates their registration, a local official must immediately send the registry information (except what the Attorney General keeps private) to the Attorney General for national records; to local law enforcement, probation if needed, schools, and public housing where the person lives, works, or studies; to any jurisdictions involved in a move; to agencies that do employment background checks under section 40102; to child-welfare social services; to volunteer groups that might meet minors or other vulnerable people; and to any organization, company, or person who asks under local rules. Volunteer groups and people who ask can choose to receive those notifications at least once every five business days.

Title 34, §20923

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(a)Establishment of Program

There is established the Megan Nicole Kanka and Alexandra Nicole Zapp Community Notification Program (hereinafter in this section referred to as the “Program”).

(b)Program notification

Except as provided in subsection (c), immediately after a sex offender registers or updates a registration, an appropriate official in the jurisdiction shall provide the information in the registry (other than information exempted from disclosure by the Attorney General) about that offender to the following:

(1)The Attorney General, who shall include that information in the National Sex Offender Registry or other appropriate databases.

(2)Appropriate law enforcement agencies (including probation agencies, if appropriate), and each school and public housing agency, in each area in which the individual resides, is an employee or is a student.

(3)Each jurisdiction where the sex offender resides, is an employee, or is a student, and each jurisdiction from or to which a change of residence, employment, or student status occurs.

(4)Any agency responsible for conducting employment-related background checks under section 40102 of this title.

(5)Social service entities responsible for protecting minors in the child welfare system.

(6)Volunteer organizations in which contact with minors or other vulnerable individuals might occur.

(7)Any organization, company, or individual who requests such notification pursuant to procedures established by the jurisdiction.

(c)Frequency

Notwithstanding subsection (b), an organization or individual described in subsection (b)(6) or (b)(7) may opt to receive the notification described in that subsection no less frequently than once every five business days.

Editorial Notes

Codification Section was formerly classified to section 16921 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

§20923 Megan Nicole Kanka and Alexandra Nicole Zapp Community Notification Program

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Title 34, §20923

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