John Doe v. Mark Keel

Syllabus

Pursuant to Rule 244, SCACR, the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina certified the following question to this Court: Does the South Carolina Sex Offender Registry Act (SORA) permit the publication of nonresident offenders--i.e., individuals with qualifying sexual offenses who do not live in South Carolina--on the state's public sex offender registry? We hold SORA and SLED regulations require us to answer this question \yes.\