In the earlier part of 2009 the Colorado Sex Offender Management Board along with many state and non-state agencies came out with a White Paper detailing misgivings about the Adam Walsh Act, and by extension, the implementation guidelines, SORNA. Most states find the AWA very troubling concerning juveniles, retrospection, the categorical tier system, and many other aspects of a document that goes squarely against known research and facts.

Eight states have attempted full implementation of SORNA but none are compliant [update: Ohio is fully compliant]. A few of the states that rushed into implementation in making their version of the AWA even more harsh, demonstrated that they, their judiciary committees, state attorney generals, and governors cared less about how unbalanced the AWA and SORNA are, submitting many persons classified as level one offenders to the categorical tier system of SORNA, and increasing those classifications to levels two and three, the most severe classification's. These egregious and uncaring states include:

- Ohio

- Texas

- Florida

- Georgia

- Missouri

If you live in any one of these states and others that rushed to produce their versions of the AWA harsher than the AWA, then you are to be pitied. Governor Charlie Chris and other governors of those eight states have long since shown their vigilantism and caring not that they hurt and destroy without sound reason, going against what today is known about the population of people classed as sex offender. You ought to get rid of your governors, state attorney generals, and abusive legislatures, for they have spoken and demonstrated publicly that vigilante hate is what they proscribe for their sex offender laws.

Fortunately there are many states that said, wait a minute, these laws are not right, we can't implement these laws the ways these laws now exist. Yes, a few states demonstrated they did not, and do not care about balanced laws, balanced justice; they only care about playing to vigilantism, and being as unreasonable and hateful as they can be.

Colorado is one of those states that said, wait, there is much that is wrong with the Adam Walsh Act, and by extension its implementation guidelines, SORNA. I am presenting to the public without further comment, the White Paper of the Colorado Sex Offender Management Board, a voice of reason, rather than a voice of hate and belligerence.

Click this link: The White Paper .