Source: http://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/statutes/17-a/title17-Asec1175.html
Timestamp: 2019-04-22 02:42:39+00:00

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1. A victim who wishes to receive notification must file a request for notification of the defendant's release or escape with the office of the attorney for the State. The attorney for the State shall forward this request form to the Department of Corrections, to the state mental health institute or to the county jail to which that defendant is committed. Notwithstanding this subsection, a victim who wishes to receive notification regarding a defendant who is committed to the Department of Corrections may file a request for notification of the defendant's release or escape directly with the Department of Corrections.
2. The Department of Corrections, the state mental health institute or the county jail to which the defendant is committed shall keep the victim's written request in the file of the defendant and shall notify the victim by mail of any impending release as soon as the release date is set or, if the defendant has escaped, by the quickest means reasonably practicable. This notice must be mailed to the address provided in the request or any subsequent address provided by the victim.
3-A. If the defendant has escaped, the notice required by this section must contain the name of the defendant, the manner of the escape, the place from which the defendant escaped and the date of the escape.
5. Neither the failure to perform the requirements of this chapter nor compliance with this chapter subjects the attorney for the State, the Commissioner of Corrections, the Department of Corrections, the Commissioner of Health and Human Services, the institution for the care and treatment of persons with mental illness to which the defendant is committed by the Commissioner of Health and Human Services or the residential program that provides care and treatment for persons who have intellectual disabilities or autism to which the defendant is committed by the Commissioner of Health and Human Services or the county jail or the employees or officers of the attorney for the State, the Commissioner of Corrections, the Department of Corrections, the Commissioner of Health and Human Services, the institution for the care and treatment of persons with mental illness to which the defendant is committed by the Commissioner of Health and Human Services or the residential program that provides care and treatment for persons who have intellectual disabilities or autism to which the defendant is committed by the Commissioner of Health and Human Services or the county jail to liability in a civil action.
1995, c. 680, §5 (NEW). RR 1999, c. 2, §20 (COR). 1999, c. 126, §1 (AMD). 2001, c. 354, §3 (AMD). 2003, c. 186, §1 (AMD). 2003, c. 689, §B7 (REV). 2005, c. 488, §§3,4 (AMD). 2005, c. 527, §§14-16 (AMD). 2009, c. 268, §§8-10 (AMD). 2009, c. 391, §1 (AMD). 2009, c. 652, Pt. A, §17 (AMD). 2013, c. 133, §§10, 11 (AMD). 2017, c. 128, §§1-3 (AMD). 2017, c. 386, §1 (AMD).

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