#registry laws

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Brittany's Law, if passed, would require felons convicted of violent crimes to register with a database after leaving prison. The public would then be able to access the database to see who's living nearby.

Officials push for violent offender registry with Brittany's Law - News - Rome Observer

[charliemielczarek]

“The single-most factor that determines if a sex offender will reoffend is whether he is living with his family and has a support system. The one thing the registry does is take them away from that,” he said. “What you end up doing is setting him up to commit some sort of crime. He has to live somehow.”

Not the best approach? | frances, girl, law - Megan's Law - Recorderonline.com

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She said she's been an advocate for children for years. She said as a victim herself, she wants to help protect children and believes clustering sex offenders together and monitoring them is the best way to do that

Proposed sex offender village scrapped | wtsp.com

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In a unanimous ruling, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania declared Allegheny County's residency restrictions invalid. The court stated that the Pennsylvania General Assembly had enacted "policies of rehabilitation, reintegration and diversion from prison of appropriate offenders," and the county legislation "significantly interfere[d] with the operation of the Sentencing and Parole Codes." Therefore, because the county law impermissibly interfered with an existing state law on the same subject, the county law was struck down.

Court Ruling Could Invalidate Local Sex Offender Residency Restrictions - EIN News - News Media Monitoring