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Sexual Offender Registration and Notification Act

By Melody Evans and Kirk Redmond

With much gratitude to our smart colleague down south in Wichita, David Freund offers this post:On November 5th, the Tenth Circuit held that 18 USC § 2250(a)(2)(B), of the Sexual Offender Registration and Notification Act ( SORNA) applies only to persons who traveled in interstate commerce after July 27, 2006, the effective date of SORNA.Mr. Husted was required to register as a sex offender in Illinois as a result of an conviction there. He subsequently moved to Oklahoma, where he was also required to register and did initially register. However, he allowed his Oklahoma registration to lapse and then subsequently moved to Missouri in April 2006 where he was not required to register. The District of Oklahoma indicted Mr. Husted for failing to properly "update and register as a sex offender" in Missouri after traveling in interstate commerce from Oklahoma as required by SORNA...continue to full post

Full post as published by Kansas Federal Defender on November 10, 2008 (boomark / email).