STATE v. OTNESS

Nos. A-7028, A-7037, A-7038.

986 P.2d 890 (1999)

STATE of Alaska, Appellant, v. Wendell OTNESS, Appellee. State of Alaska, Appellant, v. Robert Elmore, Appellee. State of Alaska, Appellant, v. Neil F. Schenk, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Alaska.

August 13, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James L. Hanley, Assistant Attorney General, Office of Special Prosecutions and Appeals, Anchorage, and Bruce M. Botelho, Attorney General, Juneau, for Appellant.

Robert B. Downes, Downes, MacDonald & Levengood, P.C., Fairbanks, for Appellee Otness.

William R. Satterberg, Jr., Law Offices of William R. Satterberg, Jr., Fairbanks, for Appellees Elmore and Schenk.

Before COATS, Chief Judge, and MANNHEIMER and STEWART, Judges.


OPINION

STEWART, Judge.

When the legislature passed the Alaska Sex Offender Registration Act (ASORA),1 the legislature authorized the Department of Public Safety to adopt regulations implementing that act.2 Among the regulations adopted by the Department is a definition of "conviction" requiring registration of any person convicted of a sex offense even if the

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