Gamel v. Cal. Dept. of Justice CA5
California’s version of “Megan’s Law” allows persons convicted of specified sex crimes to apply to the California Department of Justice (Department) to have their names, pictures, and other identifying information excluded from the Internet Web site the Department maintains to make information about registered sex offenders available to the public. (Pen. Code, § 290.46, subd. (e); Doe v. California Dept. of Justice (2009) 173 Cal.App.4th 1095, 1101.) Under section 290.46, subdivision (e)(2)(C), a person convicted of violating section 311.11 (possession of child pornography) is eligible for exclusion from the Web site if “all victims involved in the commission of the offense were at least 16 years of age or older at the time of the commission of the offense.”
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