LCO No. 3189 1 of 1 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.