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DOE, SEX OFFENDER REGISTRY BOARD NO. 10800 v. SEX OFFENDER REGISTRY BOARD

No. SJC-10695.

459 Mass. 603 (2011)

JOHN DOE, SEX OFFENDER REGISTRY BOARD NO. 10800, & another v. SEX OFFENDER REGISTRY BOARD & others.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

May 3, 2011.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John G. Swomley for the plaintiffs.

Randall E. Ravitz, Assistant Attorney General, for Commissioner of Probation & another.

David L. Chenail for Sex Offender Registry Board.

Ryan M. Schiff & Beth L. Eisenberg, Committee for Public Counsel Services, for Committee for Public Counsel Services, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

Gary D. Buseck, for Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: IRELAND, C.J., SPINA, CORDY, BOTSFORD, & GANTS, JJ.

SPINA, J.

On August 2, 2006, a hearing examiner of the Sex Offender Registry Board (board) found that the plaintiff (Doe) posed a high risk of reoffense and a high degree of dangerousness, and ordered that he register as a level three sex offender. Doe sought judicial review of the decision by filing a six-count complaint in the Superior Court pursuant to G. L. c. 6, § 178M, and G. L. c. 30A, § 14.3 Counts I through IV, presenting...

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