ABSTRACT
This address was delivered in November 1998 to the Second Annual Summit to Resist Attacks on Gay Men's Sexual Civil Liberties, meeting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Megan's Law (named for seven-year-old Megan Kanka, a victim of sexual assault and murder) was enacted on October 31, 1994, by the state legislature of New Jersey and required certain convicted sex offenders to register with law enforcement and provided for community notification of the risk they might pose.
