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Carraro |
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HB |
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SHORT TITLE: |
Prohibit Sexual Offenders from Living in |
SB |
284 |
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ANALYST: |
Maloy |
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Responses
Received From
Administrative
Offices of the Courts
Administrative
Offices of the District Attorney
Corrections
Department
Office
of the Attorney General
SUMMARY
Synopsis
of Bill
Senate Bill 284 proposes to prohibit persons
convicted of certain sex offenses from moving to
Significant Issues.
1. According to the District Attorneys
Office, SB 284 “is completely violative of individuals' constitutional rights
and guarantees, not the least of which is Equal Protection of the law. For instance,
the bill prohibits persons convicted in other states from residing here, but
not persons convicted here of the same offenses.”
2. The District Attorneys Office also
asserts that this bill is “contrary to the provisions of our Megan's law,
requiring registration of sex offenders and therefore implicitly allowing their
presence in
3.
These same issues / concerns are raised
by the other agencies submitting an analysis of this bill.
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS
Enacting this bill
would undoubtedly lead to legal challenges.
This will be costly, and will take considerable FTE and budget resources
from multiple agencies.
SJM/njw