International Megan’s Law: America’s Global Embarrassment 03/22/2016 02:46 pm ET
Tamara Rice Lave Associate Professor of Law, University of Miami
What sounds like a good law in a twenty-second sound bite sometimes turns out to be less clear when one digs below the surface. Such is the case with International Megan’s Law, which President Obama recently signed into law. International Megan’s Law requires those who committed a sex offense against a child to have a permanent stamp placed on their passport. While this may sound like a no-brainer if we consider the media’s portrayal of the sexual predator, reality is far more complicated.