An Act To Make Changes to the Sex Offender Notification Provisions
Maine Legislature, Session 121, LD 0876
Committee: Criminal Justice and Public Safety
Sponsors: O'BRIEN, GAGNON, CANAVAN, CRA YEN, LERMAN
Amends: 34-A MRSA §11254

Legislative Document 
No. 876 
H.P.653 
House of Representatives, February 20, 2003 
An Act To Make Changes to the Sex Offender Notification 
Provisions 
Reference to the Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety suggested and ordered 
printed. 
Presented by Representative O'BRIEN of Augusta. 
Cosponsored by Senator GAGNON of Kennebec and 
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MILLICENT M. MacFARLAND 
Clerk 
Representatives: CANAVAN of Waterville, CRA YEN of Lewiston, LERMAN of Augusta, 
NUllING of Oakland. 
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Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows: 
Sec. I. 34-A MRSA §11254. as enacted by PL 2001, c. 439, Pt. 
000, §15, is amended to read: 
§11254. 
Mandatory notification of conditional release or 
discharge of sex offenders 
The department, county jails, state mental health institutes 
and 
the 
Department 
of 
Public 
Safety, 
State 
Bureau 
of 
Identification are governed by the following notice provisions 
when a sex offender or sexually violent predator is conditionally 
released or discharged. 
1. 
Duties of the department; 
county jail; state mental 
health institute. 
The department or the county jailor state 
mental health institute conditionally releasing or discharging a 
sex 
offender 
or 
sexually 
violent 
predator 
shall 
give 
the 
Department of Public Safety, State Bureau of Identification and 
all law enforcement agencies that have jurisdiction in those 
areas where that sex offender or sexually violent predator may 
reside, work or attend college or school notice of the following: 
A. 
The address where the sex offender or sexually violent 
predator will reside; 
B. 
The address where the sex offender or sexually violent 
predator will work, if applicable; 
B-1. 
The address where the sex offender or sexually violent 
predator will attend college or school, if applicable; 
c. 
The geographic area to which a the sex offender's or 
sexually violent predator's conditional release is 1 imi ted, 
if any; and 
D. 
The status of the 
sex offender or sexually violent 
predator when released as determined by the risk assessment 
instrument, 
the offender's or predator's risk assessment 
score, 
a 
copy 
of 
the 
risk 
assessment 
instrument 
and 
applicable contact standards for the offender or predator. 
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Sec. 2. 34·A MRSA §11255, sub·§I, as enacted by PL 2001, c. 
439, Pt. 000, §15, is amended to read: 
1. 
Department; county jail; state mental health institute. 
Upon the conditional release or discharge of a sex offender or 
sexually violent predator from a state correctional institution, 
county jailor state mental health institute, 
the 
aepaFEffieaE 
releasing 
or 
discharging 
entity 
shall 
give 
notice 
of 
the 
information under section 11254, subsection 1 to members of the 
public the aepaFEffieaE releasing or discharging entity determines 
appropriate to ensure public safety. 
SUMMARY 
This bill amends 
the notification provisions of the 
Sex 
Offender Registration and Notification Act of 1999 as follows. 
1. 
It 
includes 
county 
jails 
and 
state 
mental 
health 
institutes with the Department of Corrections as required parties 
to give notice of conditional release or discharge of a 
sex 
offender or sexually violent predator to the Department of Public 
Safety, State Bureau of Identification and all law enforcement 
agencies that have jurisdiction in those areas where the sex 
offender or sexually violer.t predator may reside, work or attend 
college 
or 
school 
if the 
sex 
offender 
or 
sexually violent 
predator is being conditionally released or discharged from 
a 
county jailor state mental health institute. 
2. 
It also includes county jails and state mental health 
institutes 
with 
the 
Department 
of 
Corrections 
as 
entities 
required to give notice of conditional release or discharge of a 
sex offender or sexually violent predator from a county jailor 
state mental health institute to members of the public the county 
jailor state mental health institute determine appropriate to 
ensure public safety.