Pelland v. State

OPINION

Justice FLAHERTY,

for the Court.

Does the Department of Corrections (DOC) have the right to limit out-of-state travel for probationers previously convicted of sex offenses more restrictively than for other offenders? Must probationers challenging such a restrictive travel policy in a lawsuit do so using their own names, or may they use pseudonyms?

Joseph A. Pelland, 1 the only plaintiff who complied with a hearing justice’s order denying a motion to proceed pseudon-ymously and continued pressing the litigation in his own name, asks us to hold that the policy of the DOC all but denying…