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Contact Mike Carlson at the MSBA at 612-278-6336 or [email protected] 0819 fastcase.indd 1 9/18/19 9:16 AM OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE MINNESOTA STATE BAR ASSOCIATION VOLUME LXXVI NUMBER XI DECEMBER 2019 www.mnbar.org 4 President’s Page Pro Bono Publico ON THE COVER BY TOM NELSON THE NEW SCARLET LETTER 6 MSBA in Action It’s time to certify Is Minnesota’s Predatory Offender 2019 pro bono hours 16 Registry helping or hurting? In 1991, the Minnesota Legislature enacted the 8 Professional state’s first version of the sexual offender registry. Responsibility Twenty-eight years and 35 changes to the law later, Your ethical duty over 21,000 Minnesotans are on the Predatory of supervision Offender Registry. Has it been taken too far? BY SUSAN HUMISTON BY STACY L. 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