- Why isn’t a sex offender registration unconstitutional?
- History of the registry – how/why did it come about:
- Pre 1994: Few states required convicted sex offenders to register addresses with local law enforcement. The 1994 Jacob Wetterling Crimes Against Children and Sexually Violent Offender Act, required states to implement a sex-offender registration program.
- 1996: Wetterling amended by Megan’s Law. Required all states to conduct community notification, required the creation of Internet sites containing state sex-offender information but did not establish specific forms and methods.
- Post 1996: Several pieces of legislation were passed to improve sex offender registries. Despite these efforts, many sex offenders still failed to comply with registry laws.
- How is unconstitutionality defined?
- Construct an unconstitutional registry
- Do only items covered in the Bill of Rights count or do all constitutional amendments get covered when looking at constitutionality
- If you have your constitutional rights, how does that impact what you can do while under supervision?
- Different societies have their own constitution. Wouldn’t a ‘right’ be universal? Natural versus legal rights
- States with lifetime registration. Is this constitutional?
- Eliminate registry vs Private registry?
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