Part III: Search and seizure

Georgia's Sexual Offender Registration Review Board

Georgia's Sexual Offender Registration Review Board is tasked with assigning official risk levels to thousands of sex predators in the state. (Credit: Beau Evans for State Affairs)

Aug 13, 2021
Key Points
  • 600 sex predators off ankle monitors across Georgia by year’s end.
  • No legal fix from state lawmakers nearly two years later.
  • Police rely on registrations and house checks for predators.
How Georgia classifies sex offenders as predators came under sharp scrutiny during Park’s case, echoing legal challenges to ankle monitors that have occurred in several other states. Since 2006, Georgia’s Sexual Offender Registration Review Board has assumed the task of classifying offenders according to one of three risk levels based on reams of court records, ...