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Cost of Sex Offender Registration

By Melody Evans and Kirk Redmond

Also known as SORNA, the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act greatly expanded the requirements for sex offender registration, and there has been a great deal of successful litigation around the country challenging some of these prosecutions for failure to register. This is a grossly over-broad and unfair law. It applies to juveniles as well as adults.Another aspect of this ill-conceived law is the cost. If you remember, many law enforcement agencies opposed the legislation because of the overwhelming obligations that it placed on law enforcement. Compliance is required for each state by 2009, or they risk losing some federal funding.Now, the Justice Policy Institute has calculated the expected costs for each state, and that the costs far exceed the amount that would be forfeited for non-compliance...continue to full post

Full post as published by Kansas Federal Defender on September 30, 2008 (boomark / email).