April 7, 2008

NV- Nevada's sex offender law being reviewed

Does this show that lawmakers are boneheads? The Adam Walsh Act clearly says, that the U.S. Attorney General MUST INTERPRET AWA and publish "guidelines" for states to follow so they can enact legislation to follow the will of AWA. Those guidelines still have not been finalized or published, so what did Nevada lawmakers use to interpret AWA? Could that be why the lower court judge said "unconstitutional," or was the judge reading AWA itself? Hey guys, the GUIDELINES are what you should be reading. NO guidelines means there should not be a law yet!

4-7-2008 Nevada:

CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) -- The Nevada Supreme Court and the 2009 state Legislature are expected to conduct separate reviews of a new law on sex offenders that has been rejected in part by a lower court because of the way in which it deals with teenage offenders.

Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto says she anticipates that the law passed in 2007 will be revised during the 2009 session. She commented during a meeting of an advisory panel on juvenilet justice that's coming up with suggested statute changes for lawmakers.

Dan Kulin, spokesman for the Clark County district attorney's office, said his office will file a state Supreme Court appeal of a ruling by Clark County Family Court Judge William Voy that part of the law dealing with juveniles is unconstitutional.

The state law, based on the federal Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act passed in 2006, included many teenage sex offenders 14 and older with adults under requirements for sex offender registration and community notification. ..more.. by Associated Press

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