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"Effort to Track Sex Offenders Draws Resistance"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the title of this important article in today's New York Times.  Here are excerpts: An aggressive federal effort to keep track of sexual offenders is at risk of collapse because of objections from states and legal challenges from sex offenders and others.  The effort, approved by Congress three years ago, requires all states to adopt strict standards for registering sex offenders and is meant to prevent offenders from eluding the authorities, especially when they move out of state....  But officials in many states complain about the law?s cost and, in some instances, contend their laws are more effective than the federal one. The states also suggest that the federal requirements violate their right to set their own policies and therefore may be unconstitutional, at least in part...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on February 09, 2009 (boomark / email).