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Big changes to the sex offender registration provisions of the Adam Walsh Act proposed

By Douglas A. Berman

A helpful reader forwarded to me an e-mail that summarizes big news concerning federal sex offender registration laws coming from DOJ today. Here is the text of that e-mail: You will be interested to know that this morning the U.S. Department of Justice issued proposed supplemental guidelines modifying several requirements for compliance with SORNA. Many address concerns raised by the states and other stakeholders. They do the following: Gives jurisdictions discretion to exempt juvenile offenders from public website posting Provides information concerning the review process for determining that jurisdictions have substantially implemented Gives jurisdictions discretion to modify the retroactive registration requirement to apply to new felony convictions only Provides mechanisms for newly recognized tribes to elect whether to become SORNA registration jurisdictions and to implement SORNA Expands required registration information to include the forms signed by sex offenders acknowledging that they were advised of their registration obligations Requires jurisdictions to exempt sex offenders? e-mail addresses and other Internet identifiers from public website posting Requires jurisdictions to have sex offenders report international travel 21 days in advance Clarifies mechanism for interjurisdictional information sharing and tracking...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on May 13, 2010 (boomark / email).