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Registration fever: it starts with sex, then meth, then guns, then ...?

By Douglas A. Berman

As regular readers know, though registration requirements are now universal and federally required for sex offenders, some local jurisdictions are using or thinking about requiring other kinds of offenders to register their whereabouts.  As detailed in posts here and here, a couple of years ago meth offense registries were the hot idea.  Now, as detailed in this local article from Maryland, it appears that a gun offense registry is becoming the talk of the towns: Four months after it took effect, Baltimore?s new gun offender registry is starting to yield results ? including its first criminal charge. As of Tuesday, 47 people have registered under the new city law ? the first of its kind in Maryland ? which is modeled after many states? sex offender registries...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on April 09, 2008 (boomark / email).