Citizens for Criminal Justice Reform – New Hampshire

A bill written by Citizens for Criminal Justice Reform to ban residency restrictions against sex offenders got a semi respectful kiss of death this week in the Senate Judiciary Committee. It voted 5-0 to send the proposal to interim study, but the Senate is not doing any interim studies this year. 

Today, New Hampshire’s Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case that will turn on the basic constitutional principle that criminal laws cannot be retroactive, thus punishing someone for an act that was legal at the time. Nor can the punishment for a crime be changed after the fact.

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Despite the recent murder of a registrant and the attempted murder of another within a ten mile radius of Keene, New Hampshire, the Commissioner of the Department of Safety has refused CCJR's request to take down the state's sex offender registry until the killer is apprehended.