§846E-4 Duties upon discharge, parole, or release of sex offender. (a) Each person, or that person's designee, in charge of a jail, prison, hospital, school, or other institution to which a sex offender has been committed pursuant to a conviction, or an acquittal or finding of unfitness to proceed pursuant to chapter 704, for a sexually violent offense or a criminal offense against a victim who is a minor, and each judge, or that judge's designee, who continues bail for or releases a sex offender following a guilty verdict or a plea of guilty or nolo contendere, who releases a sex offender on probation or who discharges a sex offender upon payment of a fine, and each agency having jurisdiction, shall, prior to the discharge, parole, or release of the sex offender:
(1) Explain to the sex offender the duty to register and the consequences of failing to register under this chapter;
(2) Obtain from the sex offender all of the registration information required by this chapter;
(3) Inform the sex offender that if at any time the sex offender changes any of the sex offender's registration information, the sex offender shall notify the attorney general of the new registration information in writing within three working days;
(4) Inform the sex offender that, if at any time the sex offender changes residence to another state, the sex offender shall register the new address with the attorney general and also with a designated law enforcement agency in the new state, if the new state has a registration requirement, within the period of time mandated by the new state's sex offender registration laws;
(5) Obtain and verify fingerprints and a photograph of the sex offender, if these have not already been obtained or verified in connection with the offense that triggers the registration;
(6) Require the sex offender to sign a statement indicating that the duty to register has been explained to the sex offender; and
(7) Give one copy of the signed statement and one copy of the registration information to the sex offender.
(b) No sex offender required to register under this chapter shall be discharged, released from any confinement, or placed on parole or probation unless the requirements of subsection (a) have been satisfied and all registration information required under section 846E-2 has been obtained.
(c) Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, a copy of the signed statement and one copy of the registration information shall be transmitted to the attorney general within three working days.
(d) Following receipt of the information from the agency having jurisdiction over the sex offender, the attorney general immediately shall enter the information into a statewide record system, unless the information has been previously entered into a statewide record system, and notify the county police department or appropriate law enforcement agency having jurisdiction where the sex offender expects to reside. The attorney general immediately shall transmit the conviction data and verified fingerprints to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, unless the items have been previously transmitted to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
(e) The chief of police shall transmit any sex offender registration information required by this chapter to the attorney general, by entering the information into a statewide record system, if the information has not previously been entered into the system, and also shall provide the attorney general with a photograph and fingerprints of the sex offender, taken at the time the sex offender registers with the chief of police. The sex offender shall report in person every five years to the county chief of police of the county where the sex offender's residence is located for purposes of having a new photograph taken. [L 1997, c 316, pt of §2; am L 1998, c 194, §§4 to 6; am L 2003, c 62, §§6, 7]