Weems v. Little Rock Police Department

COLLOTON, Circuit Judge.

Donald Weems and Michael Briggs, registered sex offenders living in Arkansas, brought this action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. They challenged provisions of the Arkansas Sex Offender Registration Act that require sex offenders to register with the State as well as a criminal statute that prohibits certain registered sex offenders from living within two thousand feet of a school or daycare center. The district court 1 granted defendants’ motions to dismiss for failure to state a claim and denied plaintiffs’ motion for class certification. We affirm.

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In 1997, the…