The Senate Judiciary Committee heard Sen Yoder’s SB 357 creating a registry of convicted child abusers. This bill defines “crime of child abuse” and requires the State Police Department (department) to establish an electronic child abuse registry containing information relating to persons convicted of a crime of child abuse. It also requires the department to adopt rules to establish a procedure permitting a person erroneously included in the registry to obtain relief.
A representative of the Indiana State Police testified that 80% of these people are already on the sex offender registry and about their concern for the cost of creating the registry. The bill passed 7-0.
Read the bill at https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2016/bills/senate/357