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"Should registry log teen sex offenders?"

By Douglas A. Berman

The question in the title of this post is the headline of this article from the Jackson (Tennessee) Sun.  Here is how it begins: State legislators expect a strong debate about whether juveniles' names, photographs and other information should be put on a state registry when they are convicted of violent sexual crimes. State Rep. Debra Young Maggart, R-Hendersonville, introduced a bill last month that would require youths 14 or older to be placed onto a public registry for violent sexual offenses such as rape or attempted rape. The bill, House Bill 2789, also states that when the offenders turned 18, they would continue to have a record as an adult and would be placed on the adult registry. Some restrictions that apply to adult registered sexual offenders would not apply to the juveniles until they turned 18, according to the bill...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on March 05, 2010 (boomark / email).