26.22.420 Community notifications.
(1) Law Enforcement Notification. Whenever a sex offender registers or updates his or her information with the Cowlitz Tribe, Cowlitz Tribe’s Department of Public Safety shall:
(a) Immediately notify the FBI or other Federal agency as designated by the Attorney General in order that the information may be updated on NSOR or other relevant databases.
(b) Immediately notify any agency, department, or program within the Cowlitz Tribe that is responsible for criminal investigation, prosecution, child welfare or sex offender supervision functions, including, but not limited to, the FBI, Cowlitz Prosecutors, and Cowlitz Probation.
(c) Immediately notify any and all other registration jurisdictions where the sex offender is registered due to the sex offender’s residency, school attendance, or employment.
(d) Immediately notify National Child Protection Act agencies, which includes any agency responsible for conducting employment-related background checks under Section 3 of the National Child Protection Act of 1993 (42 U.S.C. 5119a) when a sex offender registers or updates registration.
(2) Community Notification. The Cowlitz Department of Public Safety shall ensure there is an automated community notification process in place that ensures the following:
(a) Upon a sex offender’s registration or update of information with the Cowlitz Tribes, the Cowlitz Department of Public Safety’s public sex offender registry website is immediately updated;
(b) The Cowlitz Department of Public Safety’s public sex offender registry has a function that enables the general public to request an e-mail notice that will notify them when a sex offender commences residence, employment, or school attendance with the Cowlitz Tribe, within a specified Zip Code, or within a certain geographic radius. This e-mail notice shall include the sex offender’s identity so that the public can access the public registry for the new information.