BND.com (St. Lousi) : Mo. Senate votes to expand sex offender list.
Jefferson City, Mo. -- The Missouri Senate has voted to require sex offenders convicted before 1995 to register with the state.
The state Supreme Court has ruled that the registry law does not apply to those people because the law took effect in 1995 and the state Constitution prohibits laws from being applied retrospectively.
Senators gave initial approval to a proposed constitutional change that would carve out an exemption for the registry law. The change would also retrospectively apply a prohibition on sex offenders living near schools and a requirement of felons to submit DNA samples.
