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Committee hears corrections request to notify victims when incarcerated people seek name changes
Summary
Senator Shelly Vance introduced a Department of Corrections request, Senate Bill 65, to allow the department to notify victims when an incarcerated person petitions to change a name.
Senator Shelly Vance introduced Senate Bill 65 in the Senate Judiciary Committee on behalf of the Department of Corrections. The one-sentence change on page 2 would permit the department to contact victims "as defined in 46-18-243" to obtain information relevant to the department’s response to a petition to change an incarcerated person’s name.
Scott Eichner, rehabilitation programs chief for the Department of Corrections, told the committee victim engagement is already core to many corrections processes but that the department currently lacks a statutory ability to reach victims when an incarcerated person seeks a legal name change. “We can’t reach out and engage that victim about that name change to get…
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