Doe v. Toelke

RICHARD B. TEITELMAN, Chief Justice.

Col. Ronald K Replogle, superintendent of the state highway patrol, appeals from a declaratory judgment in favor of. John Doe, a Missouri resident. The trial court entered a declaratory judgment finding that, as applied to Doe, Missouri’s Sex Offender Registration Act (SORA), sections 589.400 to 589.420, RSMo Supp.2011, violates the bar against the enactment of retrospective state laws set forth in article I, section 13 of the Missouri Constitution. The court declined to address the applicability of the federal Sexual Offenders Registration and Notification…