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Passed in 1996 and
named after
Pam Lychner, a victim of
a violent sexual offense, the Lychner Act sought to make the sex offender
registry more powerful by enacting tougher guidelines for sex offenders
and creating a new National Sex Offender Registry, N. S. O. R. One of the more
recent sex offender registry laws, the Lychner Act sought to tie up loose
ends in older laws and bring the efforts of the entire United States
together in a highly organized fashion.
The Lychner act set
up requirements for an FBI maintained national sex offender database. With a
national database, authorities have the power to track the
movements of registered sex offenders across all 50 states. In
addition, the Lychner Act required that the FBI register and verify the
addresses of sex offenders in states that have not yet met the minimum
compliance standards. Another Lychner Act provision changed
registration periods from 10 years to 10 years to life for certain sex
offenders.
In a nutshell, the
Lychner act made sex offender registry laws tougher on sex offenders in
several ways. States that were lacking an adequate sex offender
registry were made to meet certain minimum requirements or face
penalties. In addition, the term "sexually violent predator"
was formally defined. The Lychner Act established fines and prison
time for registered sex offenders who move and do not notify the
authorities within a certain period of time. Most importantly, the
Lychner act required the establishment of the aforementioned National Sex Offender
Registry in use across the country today.
More
information on Pam
Lychner can be found here on
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