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Extended ABAJ article about sex offender registries

By Douglas A. Berman

The September issue of the ABA Journal includes this interesting article, headlined "Crime Registries Under Fire: Adam Walsh Act mandates sex offender lists, but some say it's unconstitutional."  Here are excerpts from the start of the piece:Their names are sadly familiar: Jacob Wetterling, Megan Kanka, Jessica Lunsford, Adam Walsh. They were children who fell victim to pred­­ators, and over the years their names have been given to a succession of statutes requiring convicted sex offenders to register in their home states. The laws incrementally strengthened those requirements, beginning in 1994 when Congress passed the Jacob Wetterling Act, which promoted the adoption of state registration. In 1996, Megan?s Law conditioned federal funding for state law enforcement on the creation of such programs...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on September 23, 2008 (boomark / email).