U.S. District Court: PRIVACY.

Paul P. v. Farmer, 80 F.Supp.2d 320 (D.N.J. 2000). A class action suit was brought by persons required to register under a sex offender notification law (Megan's Law). The appeals court held that the law did not violate the plaintiffs' constitutional rights to privacy and remanded the case for consideration of the procedures for notification. The district court held that state guidelines for distributing notices under the statute unreasonably infringed on the privacy rights of sex offenders and had to be redrafted to reasonably limit disclosure to those who were entitled to receive it. According to the court, there was evidence of widespread dispersal of the information to persons not authorized to receive it and that counties used inconsistent methods of distributing the notices. (New Jersey Registration and Community Notification Act)