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Vermont struggling to implement AWA sex offender mandates

By Douglas A. Berman

This interesting local article from Vermont, headlined "Issues of cost, content arise over state's sex offender registry," highlights some of the struggles that states are having when trying to implement some aspect of the Adam Walsh Act for the registration and monitoring of sex offenders.  Here are excerpts:Under the provisions of a new federal act, Vermont stands to lose up to $35,000 in government funding if it doesn't expand its Internet sex offender registry. But officials say the changeover would add about 2,000 new names to the list ?- and cost upwards of $3 million to implement. The Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act, passed by Congress in 2006, seeks to unify Internet registry standards across all 50 states...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on October 21, 2008 (boomark / email).