Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

Megan's law

A statute requiring local authorities to notify a community of any resident who is a convicted sex offender released from prison. ( Although many of these statutes were enacted in the late 1980s, they took their popular name from Megan Kanka of New Jersey, a seven-year-old who in 1994 was raped and murdered by a twice-convicted sex offender who lived across the street from her house. All states have these laws, but only some require community notification (as by publishing offenders' pictures in local newspapers); in others, people must call a state hotline or submit names of persons they suspect. meigne (mayn), n, [Law French] Hist. See MEINY.