Edmonton judge strikes down mandatory registration for repeat sex offenders

An Edmonton judge has struck down a section of the Criminal Code that orders mandatory lifetime registration on a national sex-offenders list for anyone convicted of more than one sexual offence.
In a decision filed Monday with the Court of Queen’s Bench, Justice Andrea Moen found the law casts “too wide” a net, also ruling that the removal in 2011 of a judge’s discretion about whether or not to place a convicted person on the registry is unconstitutional.
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