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Homeless Sex Offenders in Georgia: At Sex Crimes, Corey Rayburn Young posts on yesterday's decision from the Georgia Supreme Court that a strict sex offender law was unconstitutional because it failed to tell homeless offenders how to comply with the new law. The law was designed to keep sex offenders away from children by monitoring how close they live to schools, parks and other spots where children gather. Critics of the law argued it was unconstitutional because it unfairly subjected offenders to a life sentence if they were homeless and could not register a home address. Young agrees with the verdict, but opines that "a persuasive case could have been made that a homeless sex offender could have been offered compliance through some alternative reporting requirement (or simply excused from the address change requirement)...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime and Consequences on October 28, 2008 (boomark / email).