THE FEDERAL AND DELAWARE REGISTRY LAWS

Nearly 850,000 Americans are on public sex offense registries today - and the government's own data says the registry does not do what you've been told it does. This book is the sourced, cited, no-punches-pulled brief the public conversation about registry law never gets: the federal SORNA statute and Delaware's own registration law explained in full, the growing wall of federal and state court decisions finding modern registries unconstitutional, the Bureau of Justice Statistics' own recidivism numbers, the true taxpayer cost, and a step-by-step Delaware removal and tier-reduction playbook. This Second Edition adds Delaware's own 2024 House Bill 186 - proof that a legislature can act on this evidence - and a new chapter answering the registry's defenders using law enforcement's own effectiveness research and survivor-advocacy perspectives. Written from the defense side - for registrants, families, and the attorneys who represent them - this volume names every case, every statute, and every source, and makes the full evidentiary case for why these laws should be dismantled.

What's inside:

• Federal SORNA and Delaware's 11 Del. C. §§ 4120-4121 explained end to end
• Every major constitutional challenge: ex post facto, due process, equal protection, First, Fourth, and Eighth Amendment
• The full case law: Smith v. Doe, Doe v. Snyder, Commonwealth v. Muniz, Packingham v. North Carolina, Starkey, and more
• The government's own recidivism, cost, and harm data - charted and sourced
• A step-by-step Delaware tier-reduction and removal petition playbook
• A model for what registry law should be, and a who/what/when/where/how/why call to action