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SATI e-News: September 2, 2002
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Sex Offender Registry News in
Utah and Michigan |
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The Utah Department of Corrections
will start notifying law enforcement officials in October of
convicted sex offenders who have enrolled as students or been
hired to work on campus.
Corrections was responding to recent
amendments to Utah’s Sex Offender Registration Law, which were
intended to bring the state into compliance with a new federal
law, according to the Deseret News.
Law enforcement will identify campus-based offenders through new
fields, which were added to the existing sex offender forms.
Utah offenders are required to update the form annually.
Machelle Rodrigues, registry director, told the Deseret
News that approximately two-thirds of the 5,800 individuals
listed on Utah’s registry comply with the law.
Utah college officials are struggling to determine how to
respond to the information they will receive from law
enforcement with regard to campus disclosure.
Meanwhile, the Associated Press reports that a federal
appeals court ruling last month re-opened the Michigan's sex
offender registry, which was shut down June 3rd of this year.
The Michigan sex offender registry was closed after a convicted
sex offender won a lawsuit that questioned the law’s
constitutionality.
See SATI e-news July 8 issue.
The current court decision allows the Michigan sex offender
registries—both the public one and the more comprehensive
database maintained by law enforcement—to continue until the
case goes through appeal.
“Utah Gearing Up for Sex-Offender Law”, Deseret News,
August 10, 2002
“Michigan Sex Offender Registry to Open,” Associated Press,
August 22, 2002.
Michigan's sex offender registry:
http://www.mipsor.state.mi.us |
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