The Nebraska Supreme Court won’t be asked to weigh in on whether the way a state law is written should result in a 12-year-old boy ending up on the state’s Sex Offender Registry. The question specifically is whether, by the letter of the law, minors listed on another state’s sex offender registry should be put on Nebraska’s list when they move to Nebraska, even if their cases went through juvenile court.
In Nebraska, lawmakers opted to exclude juveniles unless they were prosecuted criminally in adult court. But when the Minnesota boy in this case moved to Nebraska to live with relatives, the Nebraska State Patrol determined he had to register because of a subsection of the law. Full Article
What the %#$% is a 12 year old being put on any state’s registry in the first place? That is absolutely ridiculous.