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DOE, SEX OFFENDER REGISTRY BOARD NO. 972 v. SEX OFFENDER REGISTRY BOARD

428 Mass. 90 (1998)

JOHN DOE, SEX OFFENDER REGISTRY BOARD NO. 972 v. SEX OFFENDER REGISTRY BOARD (and a companion case).

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex.

July 24, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peter Sacks, Assistant Attorney General, for the defendant.

Carol A. Donovan, Committee for Public Counsel Services, & Carol A. Fitzsimmons (Marshall E. Johnson with them) for the plaintiffs.

Present: WILKINS, C.J., ABRAMS, LYNCH, GREANEY, FRIED, MARSHALL, & IRELAND, JJ.

IRELAND, J.

These consolidated cases concern the process for classifying sex offenders under the sex offender registration and community notification act (act), G. L. c. 6, §§ 178C-1780. Two Superior Court judges ruled that those individuals classified as level three offenders have constitutionally protected liberty and privacy interests sufficient to require evidentiary hearings before a final classification and...

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