Legal Opinion
Doe v. Sex Offender Registry Board
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided May 3, 2011PublishedCited by 51 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtSpina, J.
On August 2, 2006, a hearing examiner of the Sex Offender Registry Board (board) found that the plaintiff (Doe) posed a high risk of reoffense and a high degree of dangerousness, and ordered that he register as a level three sex offender. Doe sought judicial review of the decision by filing a six-count complaint in the Superior Court pursuant to G. L. c. 6, § 178M, and G. L. c. 30A, § 14.3 Counts I through IV, presenting claims against the board, challenge the validity of the sex offender registry fee, the lack of public access to a classification hearing, the validity of the classification…
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