DOE v. ATTORNEY GENERAL


430 Mass. 155 (1999)

JOHN DOE v. ATTORNEY GENERAL & others.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Norfolk.

August 11, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James M. Doyle for the plaintiff.

Gregory S. Gilman, Assistant Attorney General, for the Attorney General & others.

Carol A. Donovan, Committee for Public Counsel Services, & John Reinstein, for Committee for Public Counsel Services & another, amici curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: WILKINS, C.J., ABRAMS, LYNCH, GREANEY, MARSHALL, & IRELAND, JJ.


MARSHALL, J.

We consider once again a challenge to the registration and notification requirements of the Sex Offender Registration and Community Notification Act, G. L. c. 6, §§ 178C-1780 (act or sex offender act).2 In 1993, the plaintiff, John Doe, then fifteen years old, entered into a negotiated plea agreement with the Commonwealth pursuant to which he was adjudicated delinquent...

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