The recently enacted national sex offender registry legislation, HR 4472, Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006, will add convicted child molesters to the registry and require all states to notify residents of sex offender registrants.
New York adds level 2 sex offenders to its registry. The Florida site has added more details on the convictions of registrants. The future state of the registry for Missouri is in flux since the Missouri Supreme Court decided that current registrants convicted prior to 1995 do not have to update their address information.
Minnesota is now the third state to approve a registry of methamphetamine manufacturers, following on the heels of the Tennessee registry, which is already on the Web. The Illinois registry has been signed into law but is not yet online.
