Frosh seeks justices’ help in placing offender on sex registry

Maryland’s attorney general is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to review and overturn the state high court’s decision that being placed on the sex offender registry is “punishment” that a judge must order and not a mere listing of offenders that an agency compiles to alert the public to potential sexual predators.

In papers recently filed with the justices, Brian E. Frosh said the Maryland Court of Appeals’ erroneous ruling struck down a state agency’s valid determination that a convicted human trafficker must register because his victim was a child.

Because registration is administrative and not punitive, the agency’s ordered registration was constitutionally permissible, Frosh added in the state’s request for Supreme Court review...

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