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04 AM 28 0371
Senator Hall of the 22nd offered the following
amendment:
Amend the Senate Judiciary Committee substitute to HB 1259 by inserting after "convicted;" on line 5 on page 1 "to amend Code Section 42-1-12 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the state sexual offender registry, so as to require that the photograph of a person who is convicted of certain crimes for which such person is required to register as a sexual offender shall be published in the legal organ of the county in which such person was convicted;".
By inserting after line 22 on page 4 the following:
"Code Section 42-1-12 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the state sexual offender registry, is amended by adding a new subsection (n) to read as follows:
'(n)(1) The clerk of the court in which a person is convicted of a crime for which such person is required to register under this Code section shall cause to be published a notice of conviction for such person. Such notice of conviction shall be published in the manner of legal notices in the legal organ of the county in which such person resides or, in the case of nonresidents, in the legal organ of the county in which the person was convicted. Such notice of conviction shall be one column wide by two inches long and shall contain the photograph taken by the arresting law enforcement agency at the time of arrest, the name and address of the convicted person, and the date, time, place of arrest, and disposition of the case and shall be published once in the legal organ of the appropriate county in the second week following such conviction or as soon thereafter as publication may be made.
(2) The convicted person for which a notice of conviction is published pursuant to this subsection shall be assessed $25.00 for the cost of publication of such notice and such assessment shall be imposed at the time of conviction in addition to any other fine imposed.
(3) The clerk of the court, the publisher of any legal organ which publishes a notice of conviction, and any other person involved in the publication of an erroneous notice of conviction shall be immune from civil or criminal liability for such erroneous publication, provided that such publication was made in good faith.'
Amend the Senate Judiciary Committee substitute to HB 1259 by inserting after "convicted;" on line 5 on page 1 "to amend Code Section 42-1-12 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the state sexual offender registry, so as to require that the photograph of a person who is convicted of certain crimes for which such person is required to register as a sexual offender shall be published in the legal organ of the county in which such person was convicted;".
By inserting after line 22 on page 4 the following:
"Code Section 42-1-12 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the state sexual offender registry, is amended by adding a new subsection (n) to read as follows:
'(n)(1) The clerk of the court in which a person is convicted of a crime for which such person is required to register under this Code section shall cause to be published a notice of conviction for such person. Such notice of conviction shall be published in the manner of legal notices in the legal organ of the county in which such person resides or, in the case of nonresidents, in the legal organ of the county in which the person was convicted. Such notice of conviction shall be one column wide by two inches long and shall contain the photograph taken by the arresting law enforcement agency at the time of arrest, the name and address of the convicted person, and the date, time, place of arrest, and disposition of the case and shall be published once in the legal organ of the appropriate county in the second week following such conviction or as soon thereafter as publication may be made.
(2) The convicted person for which a notice of conviction is published pursuant to this subsection shall be assessed $25.00 for the cost of publication of such notice and such assessment shall be imposed at the time of conviction in addition to any other fine imposed.
(3) The clerk of the court, the publisher of any legal organ which publishes a notice of conviction, and any other person involved in the publication of an erroneous notice of conviction shall be immune from civil or criminal liability for such erroneous publication, provided that such publication was made in good faith.'
SECTION
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