Does anyone know all the states that have passed this law besides Mass?

RSOL and its affiliates look forward to opportunities to challenge various aspects of registration if and when properly developed cases (based upon strong claims and solid facts) are available. The Supreme Court accepts very few requests for certiorari (less than 1% of those sought), so it’s imperative to present challenges that have the greatest likelihood of succeeding on their merits. In Smith v. Doe, the question before the Court was very narrow: Are state-enacted regulatory schemes which publicly disclose the past criminal acts of its citizens constitutional? The Court answered affirmatively. Without bringing challenges that overwhelmingly demonstrate the punitive effect of such regulatory schemes, it’s unlikely that the Court will reverse itself. Nevertheless, it is comforting that the Mass. Supreme Court has gotten it right with regard to residency restrictions. Still, the hard work is done at the lowest level of a Constitutional challenge where collecting statistical data, gathering affidavits, and supplying a federal judge with well-documented and factually based demonstrations about the harms of registration and residency restrictions have the potential to make their way into the inevitable appellate process. These are the kinds of cases RSOL is seeking to join.

Certainly we would like to see this in every state. The suits must be brought in each state. It will require plaintiffs who are willing to see it through and, in most cases, can afford on-going litigation and attorneys who are in it for the long haul. RSOL and the other interested parties can help in writing the amicus brief, which reduces some of the attorney expense, but we cannot initiate suits in individual states.