(14.) For SORNA international travelers, the Attorney General Guidelines for
Sex Offender Registration and Notification requires twenty-one days of notice before travel with all the requested information.
(31.) Juvenile
Sex Offender Registration, JUVENILE LAW CENTER, http://www.jlc.org/current-initiatives/promoting-second-chances/juvenile-sex-offender-registration_ (last visited Aug.
(23) For a challenge under the Ex Post Facto Clause to move forward, however, a law must be shown to be "punitive." (24) Section I.A discusses the Court's treatment of adult
sex offender registration. Section I.B examines lower courts' consideration and recent scholarly discussion of juvenile
sex offender registration.
These policies and laws concern issues such as
sex offender registration, community notification when a sex offender moves into a neighborhood, residence restrictions limiting where sex offenders may live, electronic monitoring and more.
SORNA refers to the
Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act, which is Title I of the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006 (Public Law 109-248).
When counseling a client facing
sex offender registration on where to live, a TDS attorney must carefully incorporate the information from this section into the larger discussion.
and F.R., it had presumed, based on the issues raised by the parties and previous interpretations of
sex offender registration statutes as being civil laws, that the invalidated statutes in R.L.
A third, and more recent, study by Tewksbury &c Jennings (2010) examined the impact of
sex offender registration and community notification schemes by comparing a cohort of Iowa prisoners who had been released prior to the enactment of the supporting legislation with a cohort of those released afterwards.
(45) American University: Washington College of Law, 50 State Survey of Juvenile
Sex Offender Registration Requirements, http://www.wcl.american.edu/nic/documents/FiftyStateSurveyonJuvenile SexOffenderRegistrationStatutes_FINALSept2009.pdf?rd=l.
In 1990, Washington State passed the first modern sex offender civil commitment policy, which also included components of
sex offender registration and public notification (2).
Legislators responded by enacting national standards and procedures for
sex offender registration and community notification, passing the Jacob Wetterling Act in 1994 and Megan's Law in 1996.
(11.)
Sex Offender Registration and Exclusion Information, ST.