00 HOUSE BILL NO. 273                                                                                                      
01 "An Act relating to notification of the public concerning sex offenders."                                               
02 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                                
03    * Section 1.  AS 18.65.087(d) is amended to read:                                                                    
04  (d)  The Department of Public Safety                                                                                  
05   (1)  shall adopt regulations to                                                                                      
06   (A)  allow a sex offender to review sex offender registration                                                       
07 information that refers to that sex offender [,] and, if the sex offender believes                                    
08 the information is inaccurate or incomplete, to request the department to correct                                       
09 the information; if the department finds the information is inaccurate or                                               
10 incomplete, the department shall correct or supplement the information;                                                 
11   (B)  ensure the appropriate circulation to law enforcement                                                          
12 agencies of information contained in the central registry;                                                              
13   (C)  provide notice of the name and address of a sex offender                                                      
14 and the crime for which the sex offender was convicted to                                                               
01   (i)  each residence and business within a one-mile                                                                 
02 radius of the address where the sex offender resides in a rural area                                                    
03 and within a three square block area of the address where the sex                                                       
04 offender resides in an urban area;                                                                                      
05   (ii)  the superintendent of the school district in which                                                           
06 the sex offender resides; and                                                                                           
07   (iii)  other persons the department determines                                                                     
08 appropriate to notify;                                                                                                 
09   (2)  shall provide to municipal police departments the forms and                                                     
10 directions necessary to allow sex offenders to comply with AS 12.63.010;                                                
11   (3)  may adopt regulations to establish fees to be charged for registration                                          
12 under AS 12.63.010 and for information requests; the fee for registration shall be based                                
13 upon the actual costs of performing the registration and maintaining the central registry                               
14 but may not be set at a level whereby registration is discouraged; the fee for an                                       
15 information request may not be greater than $10;                                                                        
16   (4)  shall remove from the central registry of sex offenders under this                                             
17 section [AS 18.65.087] information about a sex offender required to register under                                     
18 AS 12.63.020(a)(2) at the end of the sex offender's duty to register if the offender has                                
19 not been convicted of another sex offense; in this paragraph, "sex offense" has the                                     
20 meaning given in AS 12.63.100.