An Act To Amend the Laws Governing the Sex Offender Registry
Maine Legislature, Session 125, LD 1025
Committee: Criminal Justice and Public Safety
Sponsors: DIAMOND, PLUMMER, GERZOFSKY, SHERMAN, HASKELL
Amends: 34-A MRSA §11221

Legislative Document 
No. 1025 
S.P. 313 
In Senate, March 10, 2011 
An Act To Amend the Laws Governing the Sex Offender Registry 
Reference to the Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety suggested and ordered 
printed. 
JOSEPH G. CARLETON, JR. 
Secretary of the Senate 
Presented by Senator DIAMOND of Cumberland. 
Cosponsored by Representative PLUMMER of Windham and 
Senators: GERZOFSKY of Cumberland, McCORMICK of Kennebec, SHERMAN of 
Aroostook, Representative: HASKELL of Portland. 
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows: 
Sec. 1.  34-A MRSA §11221, sub-§9, ¶A, as amended by PL 2003, c. 711, Pt. C, 
§20 and affected by Pt. D, §2, is further amended to read: 
A.    The bureau shall post on the Internet for public inspection the following 
information concerning a registrant: 
(1)  The registrant's name, date of birth and photograph; 
(2)  The registrant's city or town of domicile and residence; 
(3)  The registrant's place of employment and college or school being attended, if 
applicable, and the corresponding address and location; and 
(4)  The statutory citation and name of the offense for which the registrant was 
convicted.; and 
(5)  The registrant's designation as a 10-year registrant or a lifetime registrant. 
Sec. 2.  Development of classification system.  The Commissioner of Public 
Safety, in consultation with an advisory group convened by the commissioner that must 
include members of the joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction 
over criminal justice and public safety matters and representatives of a state prosecutor's 
association, the Attorney General, the Department of Corrections, a state coalition against 
sexual assault and a state civil liberties union, shall create a classification system based 
on risk to be applied to each person required to register under the Sex Offender 
Registration and Notification Act of 1999 in order to identify sex offenders based on their 
risk of reoffending and the degree of likelihood that they pose a danger to the community.  
The level of risk that a person poses must be listed on the online sex offender registry in 
addition to other registrant information required by law. 
Sec. 3.  Website.  Based on the work of the advisory group described in section 2, 
the Department of Public Safety, State Bureau of Identification shall amend the 
introductory page to the bureau's publicly accessible website, the "Maine Sex Offender 
Registry Online Search Service," to better describe the classification process and the 
bureau's intention to more accurately distinguish high-risk and low-risk offenders for the 
purpose of providing better information to the public and law enforcement. 
SUMMARY 
This bill amends the law regarding distribution of sex offender registrant information 
to the public by directing that the Department of Public Safety, State Bureau of 
Identification include on its Internet posting of registrant information the offender's 
designation as a 10-year registrant or a lifetime registrant. 
The bill also directs the Commissioner of Public Safety, in consultation with an 
advisory group, to create a classification system based on risk to be applied to each 
person required to register under the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act of 
1999 in order to identify sex offenders based on their risk of reoffending and the degree 
of likelihood that they pose a danger to the community. 
The bill also directs the State Bureau of Identification, based on the advisory group's 
work, to amend the introductory page of its publicly accessible website, the "Maine Sex 
Offender Registry Online Search Service," to better describe the classification process 
and its purpose of providing more detailed information about the risk of offenders to the 
public and law enforcement.