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A quick definition of community-notification law:

Community-Notification Law: A law that requires sex offenders who are released from prison to register with a local board and provides a way to share information about them with the community they live in. This law is also known as Megan's Law, named after a seven-year-old girl who was raped and murdered by a twice-convicted sex offender who lived near her house. All states have this law, but only some require community notification, such as publishing offenders' pictures in local newspapers. In other states, people must call a state hotline or submit names of persons they suspect. The federal version of Megan's law can be found at 42 USCA § 14071.

A more thorough explanation:

A community-notification law, also known as Megan's Law, is a statute that requires sex offenders who are released from prison to register with a local board. This law also provides a way to share information about the registered sex offenders with the community where they live.

For example, if a sex offender is released from prison and moves into a neighborhood, the community-notification law requires that the neighbors be informed of the offender's presence. This can be done by publishing the offender's picture in local newspapers or by calling a state hotline.

The law was named after Megan Kanka, a seven-year-old girl from New Jersey who was raped and murdered by a twice-convicted sex offender who lived across the street from her house. Megan's Law was enacted in many states in the late 1980s, and now all states have some form of this law.

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[] baddestbunny
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every time I get accosted by a strange man who follows me around because my male coworkers were too busy talking to walk me back to my car I get closer to saying we need to bring back traditional gender roles
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23:35
guys. my notre dame address just went long is this good or bad
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Oooooo me too
23:37
omg is this good or bad
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23:47
Idk if gender roles are gunna fix that then.
23:49
it looks like most people who applied in october last cycle didn't get a decision until january... does it even mean anything that our addresses went long??
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windyMagician
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reporting live to say my ndls address also went long
does it mean anything ^
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NDLS and Fordham took a very long time last year. It's good info for people to know.
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5:22
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also jazzy my ndls address went long ages ago i sadly do not think it means anything
my stanford address also went long LOL i think at most it's an indicator it's under review
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7:44
My berkeley paragraph finally disappeared. I definitely think it is just an indicator that they are actively reviewing files, and does not mean anything about A, WL, or Rs
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@WorthlessAttractiveZombie: mine did yesterday morning
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UMN under review! As predicted, decisions are gonna come out early December
Minus those random R decisions from UMN yesterday though right? I wonder what happened there. I don’t think I’ve seen a school start the season out with anything but As on here
almost all of my apps have been UR for 6 weeks at this point I feel exhausted waiting for them to finish
Irvine is being snobby and wont start any review until end of Nov.
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