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Committee advances bill to carve out narrow 'Romeo and Juliet' defense to registration
Summary
SB 351 would create a prospective defense to sex‑offender registration for narrowly defined consensual juvenile/age‑gap cases and is explicit about non‑retroactivity; the committee passed it after expert testimony from the Arkansas Crime Information Center.
The Senate Judiciary Committee advanced SB 351 after testimony from the Arkansas Crime Information Center about a narrowly drawn 'Romeo and Juliet' protection.
Brad Kuzort, director of the Arkansas Crime Information Center, told the committee the bill would "codify a definition for a Romeo and Juliet crime" and explained the draft limits the defense to cases where the…
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