r Registration Act (Recidivism). It encouraged states, by threatening to hold back ten percent of their crime-fighting funding, to establish systems where anyone who commits a sexual or kidnapping offense against a child is required to register his or her address with the state upon release. The original version gave law enforcement agencies the choice when to release an offender's information if they thought it necessary for the public's protection. Unfortunately, some law enforcement agencies did not do so (Oakes 99).
             On July 29, 1994, the ineffectiveness of the current notification law became painfully apparent. Megan Kanka, unbeknownst to her or her family, lived across the street from three convicted sex offenders. On that day Jesse Timmendequas, a twice-convicted sex offender, lured Megan into his house by promising to show her a new puppy. He then raped and murdered her. Other than the three men, no one in the residential neighborhood of Trenton, New Jersey was aware of their cr
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