HB680 Alabama 2015 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Mack N. ButlerRepresentative

Republican

Session

Regular Session 2015

Title

Sex offenders, residency requirements, prohibit residence within 2,000 feet of a camp facility used by children, Sec. 15-20A-11 am'd.

Summary

HB680 would extend residency rules for adult sex offenders to ban living within 2,000 feet of resident camp facilities for minors, in addition to schools and childcare facilities.

What This Bill Does

It makes it illegal for an adult sex offender to establish or maintain a residence within 2,000 feet of property where a resident camp facility for minors is located. It defines what counts as a resident camp facility and clarifies that certain places (private residences, farms, hunting camps, or fishing camps) do not count. It adds rules about where a sex offender may live with a minor, including several family-based exceptions and specific disqualifying conditions. It sets how distance is measured, outlines when changes to a property won’t count as violations, assigns a Class C felony for violations, and states the effective date after passage.

Who It Affects

• Adult sex offenders: face a new 2,000-foot residency ban near resident camps for minors (and near schools/childcare facilities), with Class C felony penalties for violations.
• Minors and their families: may be affected by where offenders can live relative to camps and relatives, with limited exceptions allowing some living arrangements under specific conditions.

Key Provisions

• Prohibits an adult sex offender from establishing or maintaining a residence within 2,000 feet of property on which any school, or childcare facility, or resident camp facility is located, unless exempted by Sections 15-20A-23 or 15-20A-24.
• Defines 'resident camp facility' as places with permanent or semi-permanent sleeping facilities owned by a business, church, or nonprofit used primarily for educational, recreational, or religious purposes for minors, and requiring the location to be provided to local law enforcement; excludes private residences, farms, hunting camps, and fishing camps.
• Prohibits an adult sex offender from establishing or maintaining a residence within 2,000 feet of the property on which the former victim or an immediate family member of the victim resides, unless exempted by Section 15-20A-24.
• Changes to property within 2,000 feet of a registered address of a sex offender after residency is established shall not form the basis for a violation of this section.
• Prohibits establishing or maintaining a residence with a minor unless the offender is a parent, grandparent, stepparent, sibling, or stepsibling of the minor, and only under specified conditions (e.g., termination of parental rights; certain offenses where minor or family member was victim; offenses involving a minor or child).
• Deems an offender to have established a residence in certain circumstances: 3 or more consecutive days at a location; residing after release; spending 10 or more aggregate days at a location in a calendar month; vacating or not spending 3+ consecutive days at residence without notifying local law enforcement.
• Provides exemptions from subsections (a) and (b) while the offender is admitted to a hospital or incarcerated in a facility where unsupervised access to the public is not allowed.
• Measurement of 2,000 feet is taken as a straight-line distance from nearest property line to nearest property line.
• Violation of these provisions is a Class C felony.
• The act becomes effective on the first day of the third month after its passage and approval by the Governor.

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Subjects

Sex Offenders