Following up on an earlier posting, the U.S. Department of Justice has issued proposed supplemental guidelines related to SORNA (Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act). Of particular note, the new guidelines would give jurisdictions discretion to exempt some offenses committed as a juvenile from public website posting. Comments related to this and other modifications proposed can be submitted, by July 13, to the Department of Justice, electronically or view an electronic version of these proposed guidelines.

This modification would allow Wisconsin to create a common-sense approach to creating rules that will help ensure community safety and not expose some youthful offenders to the public registry unnecessarily. If you are interested in ensuring that the federal guidelines do not tie Wisconsin’s hands in how we develop our state proposal, you should go to the site to comment on the new proposal – it’s easy!!