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In America it took the brutal murder of young Megan by an alleged serial sex offender to bring about the recognition by Congress that action had to be taken to place community safety first.
MEGAN'S LAW
http://www.state.pa.us/PA_Exec/meganslaw/soab_fr.htm
http://www.state.pa.us/PA_Exec/PBPP/sexoff.html
http://www.klaaskids.org/pg-legmeg.htm
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Megan's Law withstood a High Court challenge in September 1998
http://www.postgazette.com/regionstate/19980917megan4.asp and was declared to be "constitutional" http://www.cpanj.com/breaking_news/breaking_news1_82197.html.
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The resources were set up to register sex offenders as you can see from this document:
http://sexoffenders.net/meganslaw.html
A public register was instituted and information has also been placed on the Internet:
www.sexoffenders.net
Below are just some of the many documents posted up legally under Megan's Law:
http://sexoffenders.net/626.html
http://www.sexoffenders.net/yuba.html
http://sexoffenders.net/818.html
http://www.sexoffenders.net/91304.html
http://www.sexoffenders.net/santabarbara.html
http://sexoffenders.net/eldorado.html
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I am sure there will be more debate, more challenges and more objections to what some call an "invasive" practice, and there will obviously be a few glitches like old laws which need to be either upgraded or completely abolished:
http://www.aclunc.org/aclunews/news198/consensual.html
Replies to Megan's Law
http://www.pquinn.com/psq/mlawr.html
Megan's Law: "Naming" a New Ethical Dilemma
http://www.poynter.org/research/me/me_ec61396.htm
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Megan's Law Crusade Moves to Cyberspace
http://www5.zdnet.com/zdnn/content/zdnn/0815/zdnn0006.html
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