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New York Sex Offender Registration Enjoined
Loaded on Feb. 15, 1997
published in Prison Legal News
January, 1997, page 30
A federal district court in New York held that a state law allowing public notification of sex offenders released from prison violates the ex post facto rights of those offenders convicted before the law was passed. Since 1990 at least 46 states, starting with Washington, have passed laws requiring sex …
Filed under:
Discrimination,
Sex Offender Registration,
Preliminary Injunctions/TRO's,
Disclosure of Records,
Ex Post Facto.
Location:
New York.
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