Staff Analysis of the Legislation
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HB 846
seeks to amend Title 42 of the O.C.G.A. relating to penal institutions.
Subsection (b) of Code Section 42-1-11 is revised to include the situations in which an inmate is released into custody of any other state or the federal government or is released from a compacting state as scenarios in which the custodial authority shall make a good faith effort to notify the victim that the offender is to be released from prison.
Code
Section 42-5-9 is revised to include the aforementioned language through in
regard to the notice of relevant state officials. It also mandates that a
notification of release shall specifically include the name of the state or
federal government agency into whose custody the inmate will be released |