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· 12/16/1997

Arizona Department of Public Safety v. Superior Court

Citations

  • 949 P.2d 983
  • 190 Ariz. 490

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • holding that the community notification provisions were not excessive because “the community-notification statute is sensitive concerning the varying degrees of risk presented by different offenders by tailoring the dissemination of information to the jeopardy posed”
  • stating that under Arizona’s registration statutes, the “offender is not labeled as more culpable than he was before”
  • finding “ample indication” state legislature “intended to protect communities” through sex offender registration and community notification statutes
  • stating in dicta that persons convicted of committing sex offenses have a reduced expectation of privacy because of the public’s interest in public safety in determining that sex offender registration statute did not violate prohibition on ex post facto laws
  • “[I]t serves judicial economy to address a matter of first impression which is certain to occur again.”
  • “[I]t serves judicial economy to address a matter of first impression which is certain to occur again.”

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Judges: Ehrlich, Ryan, Schmidt

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