The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit came down against the scarlet letter yesterday its opinion in the case of Humphries v. County of Los Angeles:
California's maintenance of Child Abuse Central Index, a database of known or suspected child abusers, violates procedural due process under Fourteenth Amendment because stigma of being listed, "plus" various statutory consequences, constitutes a liberty interest; index lacks meaningful, guaranteed procedural safeguards before initial placement of names on it; and index does not afford identified individuals a fair opportunity to challenge allegations against them.
(emphases mine) Seems like another win for the precept of "innocent until proven guilty".
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