http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-8105170.html Sex offender addresses remain off Web By Reuters December 7, 2001, 4:20 p.m. PT TRENTON, N.J.--A federal judge has ruled that New Jersey cannot post the addresses of sex offenders on the Internet under the state's first-in-the-nation sex offenders' registration law, state officials said Friday. U.S. District Judge Joseph Irenas ruled that New Jersey's Megan's Law does allow state police to list the names of sex offenders on a Web site due to be launched next month. But he said an offender's constitutional right to privacy outweighed the government's need to publish their addresses on the Web. The addresses of the worst offenders can be released to neighbors under existing law. Irenas issued the ruling Thursday in Camden, N.J. The state made it public Friday. "There's a strong likelihood we will appeal it. In the meantime, we will comply with the court," said Chuck Davis, spokesman for the state attorney general's office. [...] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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