Doe v. Thompson

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Johnson, J.:

Plaintiff, proceeding under the pseudonym John Doe, filed a declaratory judgment action against agents of the State, claiming that retroactive application of the 2011 amendments to the Kansas Offender Registration Act, K.S.A. 22-4901 et seq. (KORA), violated the Ex Post Facto Clause of Article I, § 10 of the United States Constitution (hereafter, Ex Post Facto Clause). The district court granted summary judgment in Doe’s favor, finding that while the legislature intended KORA to be a civil statutory scheme, the act was punitive in effect…