Pennsylvania missed a federal deadline to amend its sex offender registration laws in order to comply with a five-year-old federal act. The deadline passed on July 27, 2011, 30 years after the disappearance of the law’s namesake. The Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006 (AWA) mandated a more comprehensive, nationwide system to track sex offenders. It gave states five years to bring their laws into conformity with the new guidelines. Fourteen states complied with the July deadline.
The AWA was named for a six-year-old Florida boy, Adam Walsh, who was abducted from a department store in 1981 and later found murdered. The boy’s death garnered national attention. His story was made into a television movie and his father, John Walsh, became an internationally known advocate for victims of violent crime and the host of a television show, “America’s Most Wanted.”
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