New Law Relating to Sex Offender Registration Requirements, the Release to Certain Persons and Entities of Information Concerning Sex Offenders Required to Register, DNA Testing of Sexually Violent Persons and Honesty Testing of Sex Offenders (1995 Wisconsin Act 440, as Affected by 1997 Wisconsin Ac

• NCJ Number: 175241
• Author(s): D Salm
• Date Published: 1997
• Length: 50 pages
• Sale Source: Wisconsin Legislative Council; NCJRS Photocopy Services
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

This information memorandum describes 1995 Wisconsin Act 440, as affected by 1997 Wisconsin Act 6, which changes current law relating to sex offender registration.

Abstract

The act transfers responsibility for administering sex offender registration requirements from the Department of Justice to the Department of Corrections (DOC) and expands the list of crimes covered by the registration requirements. It requires the DOC to establish a sex offender registry and provide access to information in the registry or notify certain individuals and entities that a person has registered with the DOC as a sex offender or updated registration information. In addition, the act requires the Department of Health and Family Services (DHFS) to notify the DOC when it is releasing a sex offender or placing a sex offender in a community setting and permits the DOC or police chiefs in communities to provide sex offender information to certain persons and entities. The act further requires a person who is found to be sexually violent to provide a biological sample to State crime laboratories for DNA analysis and permits the DHFS to require a sex offender to submit to a lie detector test as a condition of community placement.