N.Y. Correction Law Section 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. * NB Effective until December 21, 2025 * § 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. * NB Effective December 21, 2025

Source: Section 9 — Access to information of incarcerated individuals via the internet, https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/COR/9 (updated Feb. 21, 2025; accessed Nov. 1, 2025).

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Department of corrections and community supervision 7
Organization of department of corrections and community supervision 8
Testing of certain applicants for employment 9
Access to information of incarcerated individuals via the internet 10
Parole officers 11
Identification card program 15–B
Education 15–C
Acceptance of grants or gifts 16
Expense of autopsy 17
Notice to emergency contacts 18
Superintendents of correctional facilities 19
Salary and emoluments of superintendents 20
Library 21
Acquisition of real property by purchase and acquisition 22
Institution officers not to be interested in institution contracts 22–A
Qualification for employment as a correction officer 23
Transfer of incarcerated individuals from one correctional facility to another 24
Civil actions against department personnel 24–A
Actions against persons rendering health care services at the request of the department 25
Mutual assistance by institutional and local fire fighting facilities 26
Establishment of commissaries or canteens in correctional institutions 29
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N.Y. Correction Law Section 9 Access to information of incarcerated individuals via the internet

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