(1) The board shall cause a complete
record to be kept of every prisoner under the jurisdiction of the
board released on parole or community custody. Such records
shall be organized in accordance with the most modern methods of
filing and indexing so that there will be always immediately
available complete information about each such prisoner. Subject
to information sharing provisions related to offenders with
mental illness and the end of sentence review committee, the
board may make rules as to the privacy of such records and their
use by others than the board and the department staff assigned to
perform board-related duties. Sex offenders convicted of crimes
committed before July 1, 1984, who are under the board's
jurisdiction shall be subject to the determinations of the end of
sentence review committee regarding risk level and subject to sex
offender registration and community notification. The board and
the department staff assigned to perform board-related duties
shall be immune from liability for the release of information
concerning sex offenders as provided in RCW 4.24.550.
The superintendents of state correctional facilities and all
officers and employees thereof and all other public officials
shall at all times cooperate with the board and furnish to the
board and staff assigned to perform board-related duties such
information as may be necessary to enable it to perform its
functions, and such superintendents and other employees shall at
all times give the members of the board and staff assigned to
perform board-related duties free access to all prisoners
confined in the state correctional facilities.
(2) Offenders sentenced under RCW 9.94A.507 shall be subject
to the determinations of the end of sentence review committee
regarding risk level and subject to sex offender registration and
community notification.
(3) The end of sentence review committee shall make law
enforcement notifications for offenders under board jurisdiction
on the same basis that it notifies law enforcement regarding
offenders sentenced under chapter 9.94A RCW for crimes committed
after July 1, 1984.
[2011 1st sp.s. c 40 § 19; 2009 c 28 § 29; 2001 2nd sp.s. c 12 § 341; 1992 c 7 § 27; 1990 c 3 § 126; 1955 c 133 § 15. Prior: 1939 c 142 § 1, part; 1935 c 114 § 4, part; RRS § 10249-4, part.]
NOTES:
Application -- Recalculation of community custody terms -- 2011 1st sp.s. c 40: See note following RCW 9.94A.501.
Effective date -- 2009 c 28: See note following RCW 2.24.040.
Intent -- Severability -- Effective dates -- 2001 2nd sp.s. c 12: See notes following RCW 71.09.250.
Application -- 2001 2nd sp.s. c 12 §§ 301-363: See note following RCW 9.94A.030.
Index, part headings not law -- Severability -- Effective dates -- Application -- 1990 c 3: See RCW 18.155.900 through 18.155.902.
Washington state patrol identification and criminal history section: RCW 43.43.700 through 43.43.765.