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ME - State to craft new sex crime laws

Original Article 01/02/2011 By Mal Leary AUGUSTA ? Veteran members of the Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee are bracing for what they expect will be several proposals to address federal requirements for sex offender registries and state laws limiting where sex offenders can live. ?You can be certain we will see many bills, just as we have in the past,? said Rep. Gary Plummer, R-Windham, co-chairman of the committee. ?Our committee has always had a lot of legislation to consider.? He expects two major areas will be involved with the provisions of the federal Adam Walsh law that penalizes states with loss of federal funds if they do not comply with the law requiring convicted sex offenders to register with the state. He said another area would be proposals to limit where sex offenders can live, an area that has led to several bills in the past...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues on January 03, 2011 (boomark / email).