Section 12.61.050. Automated victim notification system.

   (a) The Department of Corrections shall establish an automated victim notification system that automatically provides crime victims with notice by telephone when there is a change in the status of their offender. The system must also allow crime victims to initiate telephone calls to the system to receive the latest status report for their offender. An automated victim notification system established under this section satisfies the duty of a state agency to notify a crime victim of the change in status of an offender. The failure of a system to provide notice to a crime victim does not give rise to a separate cause of action by the crime victim against the state, an agency of the state, or a municipality, or the officers, employees, or contractors of the state, agency of the state, or municipality.
   (b) Each department and each municipality shall cooperate with the Department of Corrections in establishing and maintaining an automated victim notification system required under this section.

Authorities

33.30.013;44.28.020

Notes

Recent Bills that will modify this

HB 205 CRIMINAL LAW/PROCEDURE; DRIV LIC; PUB AID

References

AS 33.30.013 Commissioner to notify victims.
AS 44.28.020 Duties of department.

History

(Sec. 1 ch 73 SLA 1997)