Moe v. Sex Offender Registry Bd.

This case presents the question whether a hearing examiner of the Sex Offender Registry Board (SORB) properly relied on hearsay evidence of an alleged sex offense as an important basis for reclassifying the plaintiff as a level three sex offender. The plaintiff urges that the evidence of the alleged offense was second- and third-level hearsay, and unreliable as a matter of law. We disagree, and perceiving no other error, we affirm SORB's classification decision.

Background. 1. Evidence before SORB. The plaintiff was forty-five years old at the time of the hearing before the SORB hearing…