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One of These Laws is Not Like the Others: Why the Federal Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act Raises New Constitutional Questions

View the article here Date posted: August 01, 2008 | Last revised: January 23, 2009 Corey Rayburn YungJohn Marshall Law School, Chicago Harvard Journal on Legislation, Vol. 46, 2009 Abstract: In 2003, the United States Supreme Court issued its only two opinions regarding the constitutionality of sex offender registration and notification statutes. The two opinions, Smith v. Doe ("Smith") and Connecticut Department of Public Safety v. Doe ("DPS"), upheld the Alaska and Connecticut registry and notification laws against Ex Post Facto Clause and due process challenges. Three years later, the federal Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act ("SORNA") was passed as part of the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act. The federal statute was very different from the state statutes that the Court reviewed...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues on January 24, 2009 (boomark / email).