The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has declared unconstitutional the retroactive application of the state’s amended sex offender registration law. The ruling came in a proposed class action brought by all level-two sex offenders in Massachusetts.
State law was amended July 12, 2013, to require the Massachusetts Sex Offender Registry Board to publish in its registry information about defendants given a level-two or level-three classification. Previously, the board was barred from publishing on-line information about level-two offenders—those deemed at moderate risk of reoffending. While legislators intended the change to the registration regime to apply retroactively, the state’s court of last resort said that would violate due process under the Massachusetts Declaration of Rights.
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