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"U.S. adds to sex offender registry confusion"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the headline of this effective new piece from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.  Here are excerpts: Three rounds of legal battles in the Missouri Supreme Court still have not cleared confusion looming over the state's sex offender registry, as prior offenders are rushing to court to file new challenges. The suits are seeking to stop local officials from enforcing new federal guidelines, which were supposed to be in place across the country by this week. The federal law creates a national registry of people convicted of sex offenses and expands the type of offenses for which a person must register. "It really has muddied the issue," said attorney Julie Brothers, who filed for a temporary restraining order this week in St...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on July 25, 2009 (boomark / email).