The Arkansas Crime Information Center is authorized to develop and operate a computerized victim notification system which shall provide:
(1) A mechanism for victims of criminal offenses or the victim's next of kin to access information about proceedings in the criminal justice and corrections systems by use of a twenty-four-hour toll-free in-watts telephone service; and
(2) Automatic notification by computerized telephone service to the victims of criminal offenses or the victim's next of kin of:
(A) An inmate's, parolee's, or probationer's status, including the location of the inmate, parolee, or probationer; and
(B) A person's release or modification of a conditional release from the custody of the Arkansas State Hospital, a local or regional hospital, a local or regional mental health facility, or a local or regional jail to which the person has been committed by a court when the person committed a criminal act against the victim but was adjudicated in the criminal case to have a mental disease or defect under § 5-2-301 et seq.
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