Sex Offender Registering

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The Regulations on Registering as a Sex Offender
Registering as a sex offender has different sorts of registration requirements. The state of Louisiana requires a sex offender to register with the sheriff department, chief of police, and the municipality of the person residence and work area. The sex offender is required to give their name, aliases, physical address, name and address of their work place, and the name of the school they attended when he or she was a student. The offender should present a picture, fingerprints, palm prints, DNA samples, social security number, date of birth, and all the physical characteristics of the sex offender. The offender is also required to provide every email address, travel or immigration documents, …show more content…

They are required to give notice of the crime that the committed and either pled guilty to or was convicted of. They are to provide their address, a description of their physical characteristics, as well as a photograph of themselves to individuals within a one mile radius of their residence. The superintendent of the school district where the offender will be living also gets notification who shall notify every principal of every school located in a one mile radius of the residence. The superintendent of every park in close proximity of the offender’s residence and the landlord of their residence, if any, shall also be notified.
Procedural Guidelines Any person who has been convicted of a sexual offense in the state of Louisiana is required to comply with the registration requirements for fifteen years starting from the date of the initial registration or the duration of the offender’s lifetime. If the offender maintains a good clean record then the fifteen year period may be reduced to ten years. The sex offender is required to pay the annual registration fee and failure to do so may be fined up to five hundred dollars or imprisoned for up to six months, or both. If they fail to pay a second time
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They will be fined up to one thousand dollars and imprisoned for two to ten years without parole, probation, or and type of suspension of their sentence. If a person is convicted a second time they may be fined three thousand dollars and imprisoned for five to twenty years without any suspension or benefit of parole or probation. If an offender is vacating the premises and moving to another residence, they have to send notification within three days of the thirty day period from which they are absent from the residence or within three days of leaving the premises. Failure to do so will result in jail time and being fined.
Constitutional Challenges Sex offender requirements have become increasingly strict over the past fifteen years. One challenge constitutionally has been whether these strict laws apply to those who committed sex offenses before they were put into effect. Some would argue that this violates the Ex Post Facto clause. Some states argue that federal requirements violated the state constitution. Some state and federal courts have argued that issues such as the collection of internet identifiers violates the offender’s first amendment rights or that being ordered to register as a sex offender violates the due process protections.
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