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MA: SJC: Sex offender registration needs to account for homeless

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

SJC: Sex offender registration needs to account for homeless By DENISE LAVOIE Associated Press 02/15/2008 Daily Hampshire Gazette BOSTON - The state's highest court said Thursday that the Sex Offender Registry Board needs to change its registration form so sex offenders can clearly identify themselves as homeless. In its ruling, the Supreme Judicial Court said the current registration form is ambiguous and makes it difficult for homeless sex offenders to fulfill stringent registration requirements created by the state Legislature to help authorities track them. "The current sex offender registration form fails to effectuate the Legislature's express intent because the form does not designate a place where homeless sex offenders may clearly identify themselves so that they can, without penalty, list a homeless shelter as their residence," Justice Roderick Ireland wrote for the court in the 7-0 ruling...continue to full post

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