N.Y. Correction Law § 9: Access to information of incarcerated individuals via the internet

§ 9. Access to information of incarcerated individuals via the

internet. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, any

information relating to the conviction of a person that is posted on a

website maintained by or for the department, under article six of the

public officers law, may be posted on such website for a period not to

exceed three years after the expiration of such person's sentence of

imprisonment and at the conclusion of any period of parole or

post-release supervision; provided further, however, that any such

website that allows the public to search for incarcerated individual

information shall be programmed in such a manner that the search may be

successful by input of the incarcerated individual's current name, any

former legal name or any other known alias of the incarcerated

individual. To the extent the department collects an individual's

current name, former legal name, or any known alias from government

records utilized by the department, the department shall ensure that

such information is input into any website created pursuant to this

section, provided, however, that nothing in this section shall be

construed to require the department to obtain and input into the

department's electronic record-keeping applications any individual's

otherwise uncollected former legal name or any alias.