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Show TheSait Lake Tribune A4 UTAH/NATION Wednesday, February 20, 2002 High Court to Review Sex-Offender Registries Alaska’s law was made retro. active 10 years,meaning people who had already served their prison terms wouldbe listed by name on an Internet registry NEWS SERVICES WASHINGTON The Su preme Court will decide how far states may go in posting registries of sex offenders on opento friends, neighbors or the Internet after theoffenders employers. Men identified as John Doe I and JohnDoe Ii, along with one man’s wife, challengedthe ret have finished their sentences andbeenreleased. In about three dozen states, including Utah, people can reactive law as unconstitu searchonline to learn if oneof tional punishment after the fact their neighbors has served time for a sex crime. SomeWebsites ‘TheDoes lostthefirst round includepictures, addresses and in U.S. court in 1998, but the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals re versed that ruling last year Alaska’s law was unconstitu tionally punitive when applied retroactively, the appeals court found, pointinginparticular to details of the crimes. The court on Tuesday ac cepted an appeal from Alaska, wherepart of a sex offender law wasstruck down. Modeledafter New Jersey's pioneering “Megan's Law. Court Allows Students to Mark Others’ Papers lawsuit came about because a school district was unrespon: sive toa parent.” In 1997, Kristja Flavo She appealed and in July 2000, tion of the privacy law that test itself.” “It is a way to teach materia) again in a new context,” he wrote in the majority opinion, “and it helps show students how to assist andrespect fellow pupils.” nearby resident allowed the appeal. woman walking to work who same crime. Most states allow people to plead innocent by reasonof insanity. had accepted a ride from him Inother states’ rights cases: ® States lost another round in their move to get around federal labor laws that require them to pay their workers overtime. lowa, supported by Utah and seven other stais, asked the court to rule that states have a Montana, Idaho and Utah also do not allow juries to con. sider whether someone should be found innocent becauseof a mental illness. Clay Grant Wiscombe, 43, was charged with aggravated kidnapping, sexual assault and robbery involving a Feb. 17 near 900 South and State Street in Salt Lake City. When the woman got inte his the woman as he was driving, according to the complaint woman to usehis telephone to summon police. right to set their ownlaborpol icies. Justices declined to re view the case, without comment out a math problem on the blackboard. The Bush administration backedthedistrict. During oral arguments last year, Kennedy, a former law room grading aloud as a viola- locked the doors and fondled punish semeone twice for the professor, asked if such a broad interpretation of the privacy Jaw would forbid the awarding of gold stars for good work and henotedthat the rationale in the case would vastly expand teachers’ workloads. the Denver court banned class- van, the defendant allegedly filed Tuesday in 3rd District Court. The defendant parked the van near 600 S. 1300 East where he hit the woman with her purse. Prosecutors said he continued fondling her and threw her out of the vehicle whenshebit him. The victim required surgery for lacerations to her head when her head hit the pavement. A CHARGES to use insanity defenses. The safety. It is unconstitutional to dependent School District in teacher. She suedbuta federal judge threw out the lawsuit. In writing for the m Justice Anthony Kenne that correcting a classn work “can be as mu a part of the assignment PUBL ic SAFE TY NE ws @ The court declined to de cide if defendants have a right Nevada Supreme Court said the state’s ban on such defenses was unconstitutional. Justices refused to consider the state’s complained to the Owassoin Tulsa, Okla., that teachers al. lowedother students to correct her three children’s work and call out their grades to the @ Continued from A-1 the publication of the men's names on theInternet In general, sex-offender laws have withstood court chal lenges i ey were narrowly directed at improving public 33 COMBINED v “Teachers are going to be relieved by the Su premeCourt ruling,” said Utah Education President Phyllis gives parents veto power over Sorensen. “Still, we need to be the release of students’ education records. The Oklahoma school district sensitive about privacy issues. Correcting papers in class needs to be a positive learning appealed, arguing that the court’s broad interpretation experience, and not used to embarrass or punishstudents.” could outlaw school honorrolls Nationwide,it's common for and eventhepractice of working teachers totell students to swap homework or quizzes and cor- 1” Re-Glaze Your 01d Tub ie ‘ & SAVE THOUSANDS! rect one another’s work as the teacher goes over it aloud in class. Sometimes the teacher then has students call out the results, and the teacher records them eg. a6" : “The ruling infers that calling out grades inclass is not prohibited under the privacy law,” said Bates. “But Granite will instruct teachers to be sensitive to parents’ concerns. complicated “801-9955-‘027 - This expensive, eee } - CONSTIPATION Volunteers with constipation are needed to participate in an investigational drug research study. To qualify you must be 18 or older. 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