Ahhh, we see one legislature seeing the fallacies of the Adam Walsh Act, maybe, just maybe, there is hope left to stop this disaster? Money, or the denial thereof, as the Adam Walsh Act does if states fail to comply 100%, is the -route- of evil!12-22-2009 Maine:
One key lawmaker says legislators are likely to balk at some requirements of the federal Adam Walsh Act, which the state is supposed to comply with in 2010.
A major battle is brewing in Maine over implementation of the nation's so-called Adam Walsh Act. In 2010, Maine is supposed to comply with the federal law, which is aimed at creating similar sex offender policies -- and public Websites -- in all 50 states.
But the co-chair of the Legislature's Criminal Justice Committee says the issue of how to handle convicted sex offenders has been debated by the panel for years. Sen. Stan Gerzofsky, a Brunswick Democrat, says Maine lawmakers have already revised the state's sex offender registry law, but he says he doubts that the changes will meet federal requirements.
"We asked for one extension because we didn't understand the funding," he says. "And from what I understand, Washington is going to be funding it differently now, and so between what you would lose if you didn't implement it and what you would gain if you did, we still have to ferret that out."
Gerzofsky says the federal law requires states to have a publicly-accessible registry that includes teenage offenders, and he doubts that Maine lawmakers will go that far. He says there is broad support to make sure true pedophiles are on a publicly-accessible registry, but he says concerns remain about including everyone who has ever committed a sex crime. ..Source.. The Maine Public Broadcasting Network
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