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Texas apparently not planning to comply with federal AWA sex offender rules

By Douglas A. Berman

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The Houston Chronicle has this notable piece about Texas's resistance to implementation of the federal Adam Walsh Act.  The piece is headlined "Sex offender list in the middle of a showdown; Federal mandate costs too much to implement, Texas officials argue," and here are snippets: The latest battleground between Texas officials and the federal government is an unlikely clash over the Adam Walsh Act, a federal law to protect children from sexual predators by creating a national sex offender registry that local law enforcement agencies could tap. The state ? which has the second-largest sex offender database in the nation, with 63,000 men and women registered ? is balking at the law's requirements, citing unacceptably high costs of implementing the law's provisions...continue to full post

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