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"Implementing sex offender registration law may prove impossible"

By Corey Rayburnyung

The Providence Journal has an article discussing the difficulties states are having implementing provisions of the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA). From the article:In 2006, Congress enacted legislation to standardize the way states classify and register sex offenders and to make it easier for the public to learn about an offender?s presence in their communities.Under the provisions of the federal Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA), each state and all federally recognized Indian tribes are required to set up centralized computer banks to track people convicted of sex crimes ? even many whose sentences were completed decades ago ? and to post detailed information about each of them, along with a photograph, on a Web site that anyone can access...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Crimes on March 17, 2009 (boomark / email).