California State Attorney General Kamala Harris said she will not appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court a federal court decision to block a state proposition requiring sex offenders to disclose their Internet identities to police. A federal judge had found that the law violated the free speech rights of the offenders no longer on probation or parole. (San Francisco Chronicle, February 11, 2015, by Bob Egelko)
Police officer associations across the state said that the decision not to appeal would deprive law enforcement with the ability to track sex offenders on their own territory, the Internet, where they ensnare women and children. Nonprofits formed to combat human trafficking also said that the U.S. Supreme Court had recently upheld sex registration laws passed in Utah and Alaska.(CAS Research & Education, February 13, 2015, press release)