ALERT: AWA Supplement Guidelines - Submitting Comments

UPDATE 5-18: The SMART Office is aware that there is a problem on www.Regulations.gov website, and has contacted them about it. We will keep folks aware of anything we receive about this. Keep checking back here for further Updates. In the meantime SNAIL MAIL can still be used. See below for any PRIVACY concerns. DO NOT FORGET to put OAG-134 in your submission, first line of comment..

5-18-2010 Washington DC:

In the Federal Register about the new "Supplemental Guidelines" for the Adam Walsh Act it says comments can be entered "electronically" at the www.regulations.gov website and that the Supplemental Guidelines can be viewed there.

I have had several e-mails asking me if I have been able to find where folks can enter their comments electronically on www.regulations.gov or view the Supplemental Guidelines there.

This is to let folks know that I CANNOT find anything at all related to the Supplemental Guidelines on www.regulations.gov website.

So, my question is, given that is a new website, has anyone been able to find where they can enter comments electronically?

If anyone has been able to find them, please e-mail eAdvocate so I can post exactly how other folks can enter their comments.

It appears they have forgotten to post the SG to the www.regulatiosn.gov website, unless I'm have a senior moment.

Thanks,
eAdvocate

PS: Please take note -below- of how you may keep personal information from posting online when you send in your comments. This applies to both -mail in comments -AND- -electronically submitted comments-.

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From the Federal Register:

ADDRESSES: Comments may be mailed to Linda M. Baldwin, Director, SMART Office, Office of Justice Programs, United States Department of Justice, 810 7th Street, NW., Washington, DC 20531. To ensure proper handling, please reference OAG Docket No. 134 on your correspondence. You may submit comments electronically or view an electronic version of these proposed guidelines at http:// www.regulations.gov.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Linda M. Baldwin, Director, Office of Sex Offender Sentencing, Monitoring, Apprehending, Registering, and Tracking; Office of Justice Programs, United States Department of Justice, Washington, DC, 202–305–2463.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Posting of Public Comments Please note that all comments received are considered part of the public record and made available for public inspection online at http://www.regulations.gov. Such information includes personal identifying information (such as your name, address, etc.) voluntarily submitted by the commenter.

If you want to submit personal identifying information (such as your name, address, etc.) as part of your comment, but do not want it to be posted online, you must include the phrase ‘‘PERSONAL IDENTIFYING INFORMATION’’ in the first paragraph of your comment. You also must locate all the personal identifying information you do not want posted online in the first paragraph of your comment and identify what information you want redacted.

If you want to submit confidential business information as part of your comment but do not want it to be posted online, you must include the phrase ‘‘CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS INFORMATION’’ in the first paragraph of your comment. You also must prominently identify confidential business information to be redacted within the comment. If a comment has so much confidential business information that it cannot be effectively.