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States Resistant to Adopt Federal Sex Offender Registry Standards

By Corey Rayburnyung

The New York Times has an excellent article discussing the problems facing state governments who are trying to enact Adam Walsh Act-compliant laws. Citing the article, TChris at TalkLeft calls for the repeal of the Adam Walsh Act altogether. From the article:An aggressive federal effort to keep track of sexual offenders is at risk of collapse because of objections from states and legal challenges from sex offenders and others.The effort, approved by Congress three years ago, requires all states to adopt strict standards for registering sex offenders and is meant to prevent offenders from eluding the authorities, especially when they move out of state....Despite a looming July deadline, no state has been deemed compliant with the law, and some are leaning toward ignoring major requirements...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Crimes on February 09, 2009 (boomark / email).