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General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 688
January Session, 2019
LCO No. 3189
Referred to Committee on JUDICIARY
Introduced by:
SEN. WINFIELD, 10th Dist.
(By Request)
AN ACT REFORMING THE SEXUAL OFFENDER REGISTRATION
LAWS.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
That chapter 969 of the general statutes be amended to create a risk-1
based sexual offender registration system with such reforms being 2
fully retroactive, including (1) a mechanism for removal from the 3
registry that places the burden of proof upon the state, not the 4
registrant or defendant, at a sexual offender registry board hearing to 5
determine a registrant's or defendant's risk, (2) that paper violations 6
shall not result in prison time, (3) that dedicated public defenders be 7
assigned to registrants for removal hearings, and (4) that an actual 8
address for a registrant be replaced on the registry with a 9
neighborhood or area of town in which the registrant resides. 10
Statement of Purpose:
To create a risk-based sexual offender registration system.