As opposing attorneys argued the constitutionality of the Sex Offender Registry Review Board on Monday, several Georgia Supreme Court justices kept focusing on an aspect of the law that applies to the most dangerous predators: they must wear an ankle monitor for life but face no punishment if they don’t.
“So you’re telling us all the people subject to monitoring could just stop and nothing will happen?” Justice David Nahmias asked Monday.
“The point is to prevent future recidivism and it’s not punitive,” answered Rebecca Dobras, the assistant attorney general who argued in favor of the law. “What it’s supposed to do is allow the offender to know he’s being monitored.” Nahmias replied, “I don’t understand the point of having a regulation you don’t have to comply with. What a useless regulation if that’s what you’re saying it is.”
The justices were hearing a challenge to Georgia’s version of the federal Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act, named for the 6-year-old Florida boy who was kidnapped from a shopping mall and murdered. The 2006 law, also known as the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act, required states to: ..Continued.. by Rhonda Cook
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