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Eighth Circuit Upholds Arkansas Sex Offender Registration/Residency Restrictions

Loaded on July 15, 2007 by Matthew Clarke published in Prison Legal News July, 2007, page 40
Filed under: Sex Offender Registration, Sex Offenders (Discrimination), Sex Offender Residence, State Statutes, Zoning. Location: Arkansas.
by Matthew T. Clarke

The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the dismissal of a civil rights challenge to provisions of the Arkansas Sex Offender Registration Act, Ark. Code Ann. § 12-12-901 et seq., and to a criminal statute that makes it a Class D felony for some sex offenders ...

 

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