"Many states failing on sex offender law; Officials point to high costs of federal program" by Sean Murphy |
Associated Press, October 05, 2012
OKLAHOMA CITY — Nearly three dozen states have failed to meet
conditions of a 2006 federal law that requires them to join a nationwide
program to track sex offenders, including five states that have
completely given up on the effort because of persistent doubts about how
it works and how much it costs.
The states, including some of the nation’s largest, stand to lose
millions of dollars in government grants for law enforcement, but some
have concluded that honoring the law would be far more expensive than
simply living without the money....
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