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Tuesday, June 07, 2005

Federal appeals court upholds FL sex offender registration, DNA sample laws
David Shucosky at 11:21 AM ET

[JURIST] A three-judge panel of the US Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has unanimously upheld [opinion, PDF] two Florida laws that require sex offenders to register with the state and submit a DNA sample after release from prison. A group of offenders challenged the laws anonymously as violations of constitutional rights, but in its decision Monday the court upheld them as "rationally related to a legitimate government interest". AP has more.






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