I. The Ex station Facto Prohibition as the Central Issue below federal legislation enacted in May 1996 states must enact legislation to put to hire their local communities know the whereabouts of convicted sex malefactors or suffer reduced eligibility for certain crime command grants.(1) As of November 1996 forty states had already enacted qualifying legislation.(2) The constitutionality of so sex offender notification laws, and the public policy they implement, has been sharply criticized by way of several federal courts and at authors of law review articles, as well.(3) united law ...