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Lawmakers to consider revamp of Idaho?s sex offender requirements

By "eAdvocate"

3-8-2011 Idaho: Idaho could change its plan for managing sex offenders that includes requiring offenders to report more information, expanding a state board that oversees sex offenders, and ditching part of the state?s sex offender law that is unconstitutional. Sen. Denton Darrington, R-Declo, said the package of changes is a major piece of legislation that he thinks will get through the Idaho Legislature this year. Darrington chairs the Senate Judiciary and Rules Committee, which approved introducing the plan. The change comes in response to an Idaho Supreme Court case in 2009 that ruled the state?s ?violent sexual predator? designation, which required some offenders to check in with law enforcement more frequently, violated the offender?s constitutional rights...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues, News, Recidivism and Studies on March 08, 2011 (boomark / email).