Section 15-20A-13 Adult Sex Offender - Employment Restrictions.
AI-assisted research summary: Adult sex offenders are barred from certain jobs and volunteer roles, especially at child-focused places, within specified distances of schools and childcare facilities, and as first responders.
(a) No adult sex offender shall accept or maintain employment or a volunteer position at any school, childcare facility, mobile vending business that provides services primarily to children, or any other business or organization that provides services primarily to children, or any amusement or water park. (b) No adult sex offender shall accept or maintain employment or a volunteer position within 2,000 feet of the property on which a school or childcare facility is located unless otherwise exempted pursuant to Sections 15-20A-24 and 15-20A-25. (c) No adult sex offender, after having been convicted of a sex offense involving a child, shall accept or maintain employment or a volunteer position within 500 feet of a playground, park, athletic field or facility, or any other business or facility having a principal purpose of caring for, educating, or entertaining minors. (d) Changes to property within 2,000 feet of an adult sex offender’s place of employment which occur after an adult sex offender accepts employment shall not form the basis for finding that an adult sex offender is in violation of this section. (e) It shall be unlawful for the owner or operator of any childcare facility or any other organization that provides services primarily to children to knowingly provide employment or a volunteer position to an adult sex offender. (f) For the purposes of this section, the 2,000-foot measurement shall be taken in a straight line from nearest property line to nearest property line. (g)(1) No adult sex offender shall accept or maintain employment or a volunteer position as a first responder. (2) For the purposes of this section, a “first responder” means a paramedic, firefighter, rescue squad member, emergency medical technician, or other individual who, in the course of his or her professional duties, responds to fire, medical, hazardous material, or other similar emergencies, whether compensated or not. (h) Any person who knowingly violates this section shall be guilty of a Class C felony.