Sec. 12.61.050. Automated victim notification system.

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(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.

(c)Through the automated victim notification system established in

(a)of this section, the Department of Corrections shall notify a victim of a sex offense as defined in AS 12.63.100 or a crime involving domestic violence as defined in AS 18.66.990 of the option to request a protective order under AS 18.65.850 or AS 18.66.100 and provide contact information for state victim resources, including the Council on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault, the Alaska Network on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault, the office of victims' rights, and the Violent Crimes Compensation Board. This notification must occur when the offender of the victim is released from incarceration or when the order under AS 12.55.015

(k)expires, whichever is later.

Article 2. Victim and Witness Information Confidentiality.