Provisions of Kentucky’s Sex Offender Registration Act, which barred sex offenders from accessing any social media that likely could be accessed to minors violates the First Amendment, a federal district court judge has ruled.
The key challenged provision of the law provided: “No registrant shall knowingly or intentionally use a social networking Web site or an instant messaging or chat room program if that Web site or program allows a person who is less than eighteen (18) years of age to access or use the Web site or program.”
U.S. District Judge Gregory F. Van Tatenhove wrote in Doe v. Kentucky ex rel. Tilley (E.D. Kent. 20, 2017) that this law “prohibits sex offender registrants from engaging in any speech whatsoever on a social media website, as innocent as that speech may be.” ..Continued..
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