Doe v. Sex Offender Registry Board

The plaintiff appeals from a Superior Court judgment that affirmed a decision by the Sex Offender Registry Board (SORB) requiring him to register as a level three sex offender. The plaintiff’s status as a sex offender rests on his having been adjudicated delinquent in 2005 by reason of one count of indecent assault and battery on a person fourteen years of age or older (G. L. c. 265, § 13H). The plaintiff was thirteen *39years old at the time of that index offense. Pursuant to G. L. c. 6, § 178E(/),1 the Juvenile Court judge who sentenced the plaintiff exempted him from the obligation to…