Correction Law § 168-J

Notification of local law enforcement agencies of change of address · as in force on May 31, 2026

§ 168-j. Notification of local law enforcement agencies of change of address. 1. Upon receipt of a change of address by a sex offender required to register under this article, but in any event no more than two business days after such receipt, the division shall notify the local law enforcement agency having jurisdiction of the new place of residence and the local law enforcement agency where the sex offender last resided of the new place of residence.

2. Upon receipt of change of address information, the local law enforcement agency having jurisdiction of the new place of residence shall adhere to the notification provisions set forth in subdivision six of section one hundred sixty-eight-l of this article.

3. The division shall, if the sex offender changes residence to another state, notify the appropriate agency within that state of the new place of residence.

4. Upon receipt of a change in the status of the enrollment, attendance, employment or residence at an institution of higher education by a sex offender required to register under this article, but in any event no more than two business days after such receipt, the division shall notify each law enforcement agency having jurisdiction which is affected by such change.

5. Upon receipt of change in the status of the enrollment, attendance, employment or residence at an institution of higher education by a sex offender required to register under this article, each law enforcement agency having jurisdiction shall adhere to the notification provisions set forth in subdivision six of section one hundred sixty-eight-l of this article.

Official sourcehttps://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/COR/168-J

In plain English

When the division receives an offender's address or higher-education status change, it must notify affected agencies:

(1) For an address change, the division must notify both the new and former local law-enforcement agencies no more than 2 business days after receipt. ★
(2) The new local agency must follow § 168-l(6) notification rules.
(3) If the offender moves to another state, the division must notify that state's appropriate agency.
(4) For a change in higher-education enrollment, attendance, employment, or residence, the division must notify every affected agency no more than 2 business days after receipt. ★
(5) Each affected agency must follow § 168-l(6) notification rules.

Marked in the text: penalties, time limits, sums of money. Editorial emphasis added by this edition; it does not appear in the statute as enacted.

In print

This provision appears in Volume 1 — The Court Clerk in Plain English; Volume 6 — The Court Clerk: Uniform Rules and Everything Else; Volume 2 — Your Career: Criminal Procedure in Plain English.