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Connecticut: Victims’ Privacy Protection Saves Some Sex Offenders From Public Registration
Connecticut: Victims' Privacy Protection Saves Some Sex Offenders From Public Registration
by John E. Dannenberg
In Connecticut, some convicted sex offenders' names will not show up on the state's public online registry. Under penal statute Section 54-255, courts may place certain sex offenders instead on a secret registry available only …
by John E. Dannenberg
In Connecticut, some convicted sex offenders' names will not show up on the state's public online registry. Under penal statute Section 54-255, courts may place certain sex offenders instead on a secret registry available only …
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