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2010 Nevada Attorney General Reports and Opinions 1 (2010)

handle is hein.sag/sagnv2010 and id is 1 raw text is: STATE OF NEVADA
OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
100 North Carson Street
Carson City, Nevada 89701-4717
CATHERINE CORTEZ MASTO                                             KEITH G. MUNRO
Attorney General                                                   Assistant Attorney General
JIM SPENCER
Chief of Staff
April 8, 2010
OPINION NO. 2010-01                LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL BUREAU; SEX
OFFENDERS: STATUTES:      The sex
offender registration laws that were in
effect prior to the passage of A.B. 579 and
S.B. 471 remain in effect during the
pendency of the litigation.
Jearld Hafen, Director
State of Nevada
Department of Public Safety
555 Wright Way
Carson City, Nevada 89711-0525
Dear Mr. Hafen:
You asked for an opinion from this office regarding whether or not the sex
offender registration and notification laws that existed in Nevada on June 30, 2008, are
still in effect or whether the Nevada Department of Public Safety (DPS) should be
following the laws enacted by Assembly Bill 579 (A.B. 579), even though there is a
permanent injunction.
QUESTION
This letter is in response to the request for an opinion from the Nevada Attorney
General's Office regarding the status of Nevada's sex offender registration laws.
ANALYSIS
In 2006, the United States Congress authored new registration requirements for
convicted sex offenders; the common name of those enactments is the Adam Walsh Act
(AWA). 42 U.S.C.A. § 16901 et. seq. The Sex Offender Registration Notification Act
Telephone 775-684-1100 * Fax 775-684-1108 * www.ag.state.nv.us * E-mail aginfo@ag.state.nv.us

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