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2. Megan's Law - Wikipedia

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   Before Megan's Law, the federal Jacob Wetterling Act of 1994 required each state to create a registry for sexual offenders and certain other offenses against children. . Under the Wetterling Act, registry information was kept for law enforcement use only, although law enforcement agencies were allowed to release the information of specific persons when deemed necessary to protect the p

3. Sex offender registries in the United States - Wikipedia

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   In 1947, California became the first state in the United States to have a sex offender registration program. [11] C. Don Field was prompted by the Black Dahlia murder case to introduce a bill calling for the formation of a sex offender registry; California became the first U.S. state to make this mandatory. [12]

4. United States National Sex Offenders Public Registry

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   Doe, 538 U.S. 84 (2003), the Supreme Court upheld Alaska's sex-offender registration statute. Reasoning that sex offender registration deals with civil laws, not punishment, the Court ruled 6-3 that it is not an unconstitutional ex post facto law. Justices John Paul Stevens, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Stephen Breyer dissented.

5. Sex offender who repeatedly violated Megan's Law stays in ...

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   TOMS RIVER - A registered sex offender from Toms River who repeatedly violated the terms of Megan's Law will remain in jail to await trial in the recent kidnaping and rape of a 14-year-old girl, a ...

6. Constitutionality of sex offender registries in the United ...

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   The constitutionality of sex offender registries in the United States has been challenged on a number of state and federal constitutional grounds. While the Supreme Court of the United States has twice upheld sex offender registration laws, in 2015 it vacated a requirement that an offender submit to lifetime ankle-bracelet monitoring, finding it was a Fourth Amendment search that was later ...

7. California hospital released mentally ill woman early. She ...

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   Editor’s Note: This is the first in a two-part series about Ashlynn Miles, a mentally ill Paso Robles woman who was picked up by a sex offender after she was released early from a county ...

8. Sex offender registry - Wikipedia

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   The Australian National Child Offender Register (ANCOR) is a web-based system that is used in all states and territories. Authorized police use ANCOR to monitor persons convicted of child sex offences and other specified offences once they have been released from custody, or after sentencing in the event a non-custodial sentence is imposed.

9. Berkeley's top cop faced internal accusations of misconduct ...

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   Berkeley's fire and police headquarters in 2020. After the police department was rocked by a scandal involving racist texts, past allegations against the interim chief have arisen.