Tilton voters have a chance Saturday to repeal their housing code that bars registered sex offenders from living near places where kids congregate.
The Manchester Union Leader reported that, Last week, the New Hampshire Supreme Court ruled in favor of “John Doe” — an anonymous sex offender — and will allow him to petition for his removal from the public sex offender registry list.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
The New Hampshire Supreme Court has just found the State’s sex offender registry unconstitutional. The Court decided the list is an ex post facto violation. An ex post facto law is any law that increases the punishment for crimes committed before its enactment.
February 12, 2015
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE BY THE ACLU-NH
CONCORD – In a victory for fundamental fairness, the New Hampshire Supreme Court held today that New Hampshire’s law requiring the registration of certain criminal offenders is unconstitutional as applied to an ACLU client because the law retroactively imposes lifetime restrictions