2004-03-24 City WS & Council Meeting

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. Risk Level 3: In addition to the acthities allowed for Risk Levels One and Two, law enforcement may share any infonnation about the offender that has been used to assign his risk level. Law enforcement is required by policy to conduct a "Communi1y Notification and Education Meeting" to release information about level three offenders. The law included due process for the offender in two ways. First it allowed for challenges to the risk level assignment by the offender before any information is released to the public. Second, after three years in the communi1y the offender can seek a risk level reduction. RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS: The Community Notification Law required the DOC to manage several activities to initiate, implement, and maintain the process of community notification. Those responsibilities are: . Establish a scale for assigning offenders to risk levels. . Establish and maintain standing committees at each adult institution to review information about the offender and actually assign the risk levels. These End Of Confinement Review Committees (ECRC) are actually responsible for creating the risk assignment doclilllent released to law enforcement, and are appointed by the Commissioner of Corrections for two years. . Send information to law enforcement at several stages of the process, and continue to release information about the offender for the entire time notification applies, regardless of whether the offender continues to be supervised on probation or release conditions. Offenders are required to register address changes with law enforcement for ten years or for the entire tenn of probation or supervised release, which ever is longer (M.S. 243.166). Since August 1, 2000 some offenders must register for their entire life. Communi1y notification continues for the entire period that the offender must register. Communi1y notification applies to sex offenders subject to registration. The law specifies three groups of sex offenders who need to be reviewed: . Offenders incarcerated in Minnesota Correctional Facilities to whom registration applies. . Offenders on supervision in Minnesota under the Interstate Compact conditions who were released from prison in other states; and, . Individuals who have been committed as sexually dangerous persons or psychopathic personalities who are being released from confinement The ECRC is also responsible for considering reassessment requests made by law enforcement or the corrections agent and for dealing with requests from offenders for a reduction in risk level two years after it was initially assigned An ECRC has been formed at each institution from which sex offenders are released. Each committee consists of five persons: . The warden of the facili1y or designee (committee chair). . A case- manager experienced in supervising sex offenders. . A representative from the Minnesota Center for Crime Victim Services. 3