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While the three tier system is indeed effective, the flaw lies within the fact that this system is only a state law. The federal version of Megan's Law is much less structured, and varies from state to state. Due to this, there is much hesitation concerning the way Megan's Law is implemented. Not all states require active notification; That is, the information regarding sex offenders whereabouts are available to the public, but not publicly distributed. They may be available in the form of a Website, or one may have to go to a local Police Department and request the information. Either way, the information, though readily available to the public, is not given out in all states the way it is in New Jersey. This lack of uniformity with the law is the subject of much dispute. What is the point in having convicted sex offenders registering themselves if people aren't even notified? In order for Megan's Law to truly be effective, the original statutes outlined in the New Jersey version of Megan's law, must be implemented in the Federal Version. .
Another major problem in the fight for the proper use of Megan's law is the fact that attorneys defending sex offenders are now fighting against Megan's law and sex offender registration, saying that the law is unconstitutional because it violates the Ex Post Facto Clause of the constitution. The clause is simple: it says that no state can increase a punishment after a crime has been committed and a sentence already served. Two defendants who are refuting Megan's Law in Alaska claim that it is violating their constitutional rights, since their crimes were committed in the early 1980's, long before Megan's law was created, and by registering they are being subjected to further punishment. The question put to the Supreme Court is: how fine is the line between protecting the public and prolonging a punishment? Information provided by Megan's Law is already available to the public, in the form of files that are available at any Court Clerks office.
Megan's Law is a law that very few people know about. Recently there was a survey done at Defiance High School about Megan's Law . The first question asked was "do you know what Megan's Law is and if so do you agree with it?... The federal version of "Megan's law- was signed by Mr. ... So it would seem that Megan's Law is working to some effect (Bill Bickel 1). ...
Abstract Megan's Law is named after seven-year-old Megan Kanka, a girl who was raped and killed by a known child molester who had moved across the street from the family without their knowledge. Currently all 50 states have either a law enacted or are proposing Megan's Law which requires the registration of all people convicted sexual crimes because sex offenders are more prone to re-offend and it assists in protecting the public. ... Megan's Law and Childhood Sexual Abuse Prevention Megan's Law is named after seven-year-old Megan Kanka, a girl who was raped and kille...
Megan's Law For Those of you who do not know this law was named for Megan Kanka, a little seven year-old girl whose life was ended prematurely when she was raped and strangled in 1994 by a neighbor, a twice-convicted pedophile named Jesse Timmendequas. ... However despite much controversy Megan`s Law is constitutional. ... Megan`s law is the first step in recoginizing our need for stronger legislation to protest our innocent children from sexual predators. Megan`s law is the floor, not the ceiling. Even with Megan`s law we need alot mor...
One large scale example that brought about a new law is the story of Megan Meier. Megan committed suicide after being cyber-bullied through the networking site, Myspace. ... A case like Megan's has brought attention to the public about cyberbullying (Alcorn, 2008). Megan Meier's mother, Tina Meier has become a huge advocate for laws and regulations on internet harassment and issues that deal with cyberbullying. ... Lori Drew, the mother of one of Megan's friends and neighbor had logged onto the site as 16-year-old Josh Evans and started the harassment of Megan (Alcorn, 2008). ...
Megan's Law according to the Columbia encyclopedia "is a state or federal statute that requires the notification of public organizations and private citizens when a convicted sex offender has been released from prison and is present in the community. Megan's Law was created after the 1994 rape and murder of seven year old Megan Kanka. Megan Kanka was a seven year old girl from New Jersey who was lured to the house of a twice convicted sex offender. ... Later that day a search party was formed to look for Megan and the man who committed this crime even offered to help look for her. .....
Child Abuse Laws Child abuse. ... For example; stories, facts, & figures as they are told by adults, the children, law enforcers, law makers, the accused, the falsely accused etc. ... The Volunteers for Children Act was signed into law by President Clinton as Public Law 105-251. ... "Megan's Law" stemmed from what was perhaps one of the most well known cases of child abuse in history. ... The law also allows police agencies to proactively put out bulletins/ann...
The citizens of Hamilton Township, along with thousands of people from around New Jersey were "outraged" by what had happened to Megan. ... They also say that community notification will "destroy the efforts of thousands of law-abiding former sex offenders to re-build their life's." ... Midge Dector begins her article, "Megan's Law and The New York Times" by telling what happened to this little girl. ... Dector believes that the law is too soft on criminals. ... The times makes a good point saying, that "frightened citizenry" should not take the law into their own hands. ...
The first of these laws was put into effect in by the U.S. government in 1994, and new laws have been helping the system evolve into the programs and registry lists we have today. ... The next major piece of legislation came in 1996 with Megan's Law, which provides the public with the ability to access information from sex offender registries. Megan's Law also requires state and local law enforcement agencies to release relevant information necessary to protect the public about persons registered under a state registration program established under the Jacob Wetterling Act. ... Non...
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