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35 Am. Crim. L. Rev. 333 (1997-1998)
Scarlet Letter Sex Offender Databases and Community Notification: Sacrificing Personal Privacy for a Symbol's Sake

handle is hein.journals/amcrimlr35 and id is 343 raw text is: SCARLET LETTER SEX OFFENDER DATABASES AND COMMUNITY NOTIFICATION: SACRIFICING PERSONAL PRIVACY FOR A SYMBOL'S SAKE Alan R. Kabat* I. THE GENERAL PROBLEM: RELEASE OF SEX OFFENDERS TO COMMUNITIES AND RECIDIVISM ........................... II. THE RIGHT TO PRIVACY OF SEX OFFENDERS VS. THE PUBLIC'S RIGHT TO KNOW ..................................... III. STATE-LEVEL STATUTORY RESPONSES ...................... A . Retroactivity ..................................... B . D uration ........................................ C. Petition to End ................................... D. Record Review .................................... E. Public Records ................................... F. Public Databases .................................. G. Disclosure Upon Request ............................ H. Community Notification ............................. 1. Who is Notified ................................ 2. Whether Notification is Discretionary or Mandatory ...... 3. Unitary Notification or Levels of Notification ........... 4. What Information is Provided ...................... I. State Actor Immunity ............................... IV. FEDERAL STATUTORY RESPONSES .......................... V. PRIVATE DATABASES AND NON-CONVICTED SEX OFFENDERS ...... VI. A CODE OF FAIR INFORMATION PRACTICES FOR SEX OFFENDER D ATABASES ......................................... A. Notice Regarding Databases .......................... 1. Openness Principle .............................. 2. Duration Principle .............................. 3. Collection Limitation Principle ..................... 4. Purpose Specification Principle ..................... B. Reliability of Information ............................ 334 337 340 341 342 343 343 343 344 344 345 345 345 346 346 347 348 351 353 354 354 354 354 355 355 * J.D. Candidate, 1998, Georgetown University Law Center. This Note was written for the Information Privacy Law Seminar. I thank adjunct Professor Marc Rotenberg for his valuable comments towards formulating my arguments. Subsequently, Leslie Hagin and Michael Subit provided an extensive review which improved this Note. Any shortcomings remain my own. The title of this Note was inspired by Chandler v. Miller, 117 S. Ct. 1295, 1305 (1997) (concluding that [hiowever well meant, the candidate drug test Georgia has devised diminishes personal privacy for a symbol's sake.).

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