2004-03-24 City WS & Council Meeting

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At least 60 days prior to release, the DOC sends infonnatlon about the offender to the law enforcement agency that investigated the crime that led to the incarceration of the offender. This agency is most likely to have additional information that might not have been available to the ECRC. The statute allow-s law enforcement a 30-day time period to request a re,iew of an offender's risk level, but specifies that in a request for reassessment "the law enforcement agency or (corrections) agent sballlist the facts and circumstances arising after the initial assignment (of risk)". The DOC is responsible for providing education to inmates \mO are subject to community notification This education includes information about the process ofrisk assignment, as well as information about notification in the community. Infonnatlon is provided to case managers throughout the DOC so that they can educate individual inmates. Presentations are made at each sex offender program at least twice a year by sex offender treatment personnel and the public defender. Additionally, inmates receive further information at the ECRC meeting, and can ask questions of the panel related to the risk assignment, or other notification processes. The DOC is responsible for sending information to local law enforcement. This includes all information upon which the end of confinement review committee made its decision A fact sheet is sent to the law enforcement agency containing the offender's picture, general address, and other public information about the offender. This allows a law enforcement agency to simply reproduce this document for distribution to the public. Finally, the DOC serves as a repository of records so that law enforcement can be notified upon the relocation of the offender. DUTIES OF OTHER AGENCIES: The 10ca1law enforcement agency where the offender resides is responsible for conducting the actual notification. The Minnesota Peace Officer Standards and Training Board (pOST Board) developed a model policy for law enforcement agencies to follow in regard to community notification Law enforcement must make a good faith effort to develop a community notification plan for each offender within 14 days of the receipt of the ECRC risk level determination The model policy specifies infonnation release procedures for each separate risk level. As previously mentioned, law enforcenmt must conduct a community education meeting for each offender released to, or relocating to, their specific community PREliMINARY DATA: Risk levels were assigned, and information was released on 2,777 offenders during the first six years of operation of community notification procedures. The risk levels were assigned as follows: Nwnber Percent of Total Levell 1,756 63% Level 2 653 24% Level 3 368 13% Totals 2,777 100% 5