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Veto of Sex Offender Registration Reform

By Smith Law Offices,

And this was his own party that controls the legislature! From the Bangor Daily News:AUGUSTA, Maine ? Gov. John Baldacci on Wednesday pocket-vetoed a bill aimed at improving the state?s sex offender registry, effectively negating a year of work by members of the Legislature?s Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee. LD 446, an Act to Improve the Use of Information Regarding Sex Offenders to Better Ensure Public Safety and Awareness, is the latest in a series of bills the governor has refused to sign. Baldacci credited committee members for working diligently on the issue but said in a statement Wednesday afternoon: "I cannot support this legislation. It would remove from the sex offender registry perhaps as many as 580 people who have been convicted of a sex crime...continue to full post

Full post as published by SexCrimeDefender on May 01, 2008 (boomark / email).