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140, § 5. Therefore, when SORB gave a sex offender a stage two classification after the 2003 modification, SORB implicitly decided that the offender was not so dangerous that the interest of public safety required Internet publication of the offender's registry data, as a result of SORB would have given the offender a degree three classification if it believed that Internet publication of the offender's registry info was warranted. SORB on or earlier than the effective date of the amendments, or whether it supposed Internet publication to apply only prospectively to those given a closing degree two classification after the amendments grew to become efficient. Under the brand new authorized consequences test, the contested amendments are retroactive in operation, because they mandate a considerable new authorized consequence (Internet publication of offender's registry data) to occasions accomplished on or before the date of their enactment (SORB's last willpower that offender must be given level two classification) that beforehand had been expressly prohibited beneath G. L. c. |
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