· 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
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- 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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