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RI - Implementing sex offender registration law may prove impossible

View the article here And in this whole article, I see nothing about the facts the registry, residency or anything else about these laws, actually work.  Many studies have been done which prove they do not work, yet the legislature continue to ignore these facts.  But they complain they do not have the funds. 03/15/2009 By Tracy Breton - Journal Staff Writer In 2006, Congress enacted legislation to standardize the way states classify and register sex offenders and to make it easier for the public to learn about an offender?s presence in their communities. Under the provisions of the federal Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA), each state and all federally recognized Indian tribes are required to set up centralized computer banks to track people convicted of sex crimes ? even many whose sentences were completed decades ago (and in disregard to the ex post facto and due process portions of the US and State Constitutions) ? and to post detailed information about each of them, along with a photograph, on a Web site that anyone can access...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues on March 14, 2009 (boomark / email).