00CS FOR SENATE BILL NO. 25(FIN)                                                                                          
01 "An Act relating to the Department of Corrections' providing an automated victim                                        
02 notification and prisoner information system."                                                                          
03 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                                
04    * Section 1.  AS 12.61 is amended by adding a new section to article 1 to read:                                      
05  Sec. 12.61.050.  Automated victim notification system.  (a)  The Department                                           
06 of Corrections shall establish an automated victim notification system that                                             
07 automatically provides crime victims with notice by telephone when there is a change                                    
08 in the status of their offender.  The system shall also allow crime victims to initiate                                 
09 telephone calls to the system to receive the latest status report for their offender.  An                               
10 automated victim notification system established under this section satisfies the duty                                  
11 of a state agency to notify a crime victim of the change in status of an offender.  The                                 
12 failure of a system to provide notice to a crime victim does not give rise to a separate                                
13 cause of action by the crime victim against the state, an agency of the state, or a                                     
14 municipality, or the officers, employees, or contractors of the state, agency of the state,                             

01 or municipality.                                                                                                        
02  (b)  Each department and each municipality shall cooperate with the                                                   
03 Department of Corrections in establishing and maintaining an automated victim                                           
04 notification system required under this section.                                                                        
05    * Sec. 2.  AS 33.30.013 is amended by adding a new subsection to read:                                               
06  (f)  The commissioner's duty under (a) - (c) of this section to notify a victim                                       
07 of a change in the status of an offender is satisfied by the notice provided by an                                      
08 automated victim notification system established under AS 12.61.050.                                                    
09    * Sec. 3.  AS 44.28.020 is amended by adding a new subsection to read:                                               
10  (c)  The department shall establish an automated inmate information system to                                         
11 allow persons to place surcharge telephone calls to obtain information concerning                                       
12 inmates and where they are incarcerated, bail and bond information, and information                                     
13 concerning visiting hours at institutions.  A system established under this subsection                                  
14 (1) must be designed so that all the costs of the system are, at a minimum, met by the                                  
15 revenues received from calls to the system, and (2) shall be designed so that the                                       
16 revenues received satisfy or defray the costs of establishing and maintaining an                                        
17 automated victim notification system if such a system is established under                                              
18 AS 12.61.050.