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Maine's SORNA Act MAY be made less draconian!

By Smith Law Offices,

From the Bangor Daily News:AUGUSTA, Maine ? With a growing number of legal challenges to Maine?s sex offender registry, members of the Legislature?s Criminal Justice Committee are discussing rewriting the law this session creating a new registry system. . . . The panel was updated on the legal status of the registry last week when Assistant Attorney General Laura Smith told committee members there are currently four cases challenging the registry in Superior Court. . . . "But it seems pretty clear to me it won?t happen before this session is over," said Rep. Stan Gerzofsky, D-Brunswick, co-chairman of the panel. "I think we have to move on this and not wait for some idea or direction from the courts." The committee held public hearings last year on several proposals to change the registry after the state supreme court ruling that sent back to the Superior Court a case where a "John Doe" sued alleging the state law is unconstitutional because of the retroactive portion of the law requiring sex offenders since 1982 to register...continue to full post

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