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AG Holder Talks About AWA

By Corey Rayburnyung

Stateline.org continues its great sex offender law coverage by covering the new U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder's comments about federal sex offender policy. From the article:Sex offender policy also could be revised in the states? favor under President Obama.For more than a year, state attorneys general and other law enforcement officials have struggled with aspects of the Adam Walsh Act, a 2006 federal law that requires states to adopt the same standards for registering and tracking sex offenders by July ? or risk losing millions of dollars in Justice Department grants.Although state officials agree with the aim of the Adam Walsh Act, they say they lack the resources to meet its many demands, which include classifying all sex offenders? levels of risk and standardizing what information they include in their online registries...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Crimes on March 12, 2009 (boomark / email).