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Missouri Supreme Court rules that federal sex offender registration requirement trumps state limits

By Douglas A. Berman

This local article, headlined "Ruling to force sex offenders' names back on Missouri registry," provides a report on the significant impact of a ruling from the MIssouri Supreme Court concerning what sex offenders must register with the state: Thousands of Missouri sex offenders will have to put their names back on the state registry after a ruling Tuesday by the state Supreme Court.  The offenders ? including roughly 600 in Jackson County alone ? were wiped from the registry in late June 2006.  The court at the time said the Missouri Constitution didn?t allow for laws to be enforced retroactively, so only offenders convicted after the law took effect in January 1995 had to comply. But the state judges unanimously ruled Tuesday that sex offenders must obey a federal law that went into effect about a month after that 2006 ruling...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on June 17, 2009 (boomark / email).