Case Title: Doe, Sex Offender Registry Bd. No. 3839 v. Sex Offender Registry Bd.

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Docket Number: SJC-11604

State: massachusetts

Court: Massachusetts Supreme Court

Date: 2015-08-21T00:00:00Z

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SJC-11604 
 
JOHN DOE, SEX OFFENDER REGISTRY BOARD NO. 3839  vs.  SEX 
OFFENDER REGISTRY BOARD. 
 
 
 
Plymouth.     September 3, 2014. - August 21, 2015. 
 
Present:  Gants, C.J., Spina, Cordy, Botsford, Duffly, & Lenk, 
JJ. 
 
 
Sex Offender.  Sex Offender Registration and Community 
Notification Act.  Delinquent Child.  Constitutional Law, 
Sex offender.  Due Process of Law, Sex offender, 
Retroactive application of statute.  Statute, Retroactive 
application.  Practice, Civil, Sex offender.  
Administrative Law, Findings. 
 
 
 
 
Civil action commenced in the Superior Court Department on 
February 18, 2011. 
 
 
The case was heard by Christopher J. Muse, J., on a motion 
for judgment on the pleadings, and a motion for relief from 
judgment and for reconsideration was also heard by him. 
 
 
The Supreme Judicial Court granted an application for 
direct appellate review. 
 
 
 
Matthew J. Koes for the plaintiff. 
 
William H. Burke for the defendant. 
 
 
DUFFLY, J.  In 1990 and 1991, the plaintiff, John Doe, Sex 
 
 
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Offender Registry Board No. 3839 (Doe), was adjudicated a 
delinquent juvenile by reason of sex offenses he committed in 
1989 and 1990, when he was fourteen and fifteen years old.  
Following his adjudications, Doe was committed to the Department 
of Youth Services (DYS), where he remained for over nine years, 
pursuant to orders extending his commitment beyond his 
eighteenth birthday.  In April, 2000, Doe was committed 
temporarily to the Massachusetts Treatment Center (treatment 
center) for evaluation on the Commonwealth's petition that Doe 
be civilly committed as a sexually dangerous person (SDP); 
thereafter, he was found to be sexually dangerous and was 
civilly committed to the treatment center for a period of from 
one day to life.  In January, 2011, twenty years after Doe 
committed the offenses, the defendant Sex Offender Registry 
Board (SORB) classified him as a level three sex offender.  In 
September, 2013, Doe was determined to be no longer sexually 
dangerous, and was discharged from the treatment center. 
Doe contends that the sex offender registration statute, 
G. L. c. 6, §§ 178C-178Q (registration statute), as applied to 
him, constitutes an ex post facto punishment, and violates his 
rights to due process and protection against double jeopardy, 
because the requirement that he register as a sex offender was 
triggered by juvenile adjudications that preceded the statute's 
enactment.  See St. 1996, c. 239, § 1.  He maintains also that, 
 
 
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even if the registration statute does not operate impermissibly 
as applied to him, the hearing examiner's determination that he 
is a level three sex offender was unsupported by substantial 
evidence.  Doe argues that the hearing examiner did not properly 
consider his youth at the time of his offenses, and that the 
decision was based on factual errors and unreliable evidence.  
Doe argues further that the evidence underlying the 
classification was stale, because the hearing resulting in the 
final classification took place more than three years before his 
discharge from the treatment center. 
We conclude that the registration statute was not applied 
retroactively as to Doe; the hearing examiner considered Doe's 
youth in accordance with the regulatory factors in effect; and 
the factual errors complained of either were de minimis or were 
determinations adequately supported by evidence in the record, 
and were not erroneous.  Doe's contention regarding staleness, 
however, is valid.  A final classification by SORB must be based 
on current evidence of a sex offender's risk of reoffense and 
dangerousness to the community, see G. L. c. 6, §§ 178C-178Q, 
and a final classification made over three years prior to an 
offender's release from confinement is presumptively stale.  See 
Doe, Sex Offender Registry Bd. No. 7083 v. Sex Offender Registry 
Bd., 472 Mass.    (2015) (Doe No. 7083).  Because Doe's 
classification determination was not based on current evidence 
 
 
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of the relevant risk factors, he is entitled to new evidentiary 
hearing at which SORB will bear the burden of establishing his 
risk of reoffense and his level of danger to the community.  See 
id. at    . 
Background and prior proceedings.  In 1990, Doe admitted to 
sufficient facts to support a finding of delinquency on a charge 
that in 1989, when he was fourteen years old, he raped a six 
year old girl.  He was placed on probation for that offense.  
While on probation, Doe sexually assaulted two nine year old 
girls, and in 1991, he was adjudicated delinquent on two counts 
of indecent assault and battery of a child under the age of 
fourteen.  He was committed to DYS, where he was confined until 
he reached the age of twenty-five. 
In April, 2000, in anticipation of Doe's discharge from 
confinement, the Commonwealth filed a petition in the Superior 
Court pursuant to G. L. c. 123A, § 12 (e), seeking to have Doe 
temporarily committed to the treatment center pending a probable 
cause hearing on its petition that Doe be civilly committed as 
an SDP.  In September, 2002, a Superior Court judge determined 
that there was probable cause to believe that Doe was an SDP, 
and ordered that Doe undergo examination and diagnosis at the 
treatment center.  See G. L. c. 123A, § 13.  In January, 2003, a 
Superior Court jury found that Doe was an SDP, see G. L. 
c. 123A, § 14, and Doe was committed to the treatment center for 
 
 
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an indeterminate period of one day to life. 
In May, 2007, Doe filed a petition under G. L. c. 123A, 
§ 9, seeking discharge from the treatment center.  After a trial 
in July, 2010, a jury found that Doe remained an SDP.  Doe filed 
a second petition for discharge in August, 2010, and in 
September, 2013, after two qualified examiners1 submitted reports 
opining that Doe was no longer sexually dangerous, a Superior 
Court judge issued an order discharging Doe from the treatment 
center.  See Johnstone, petitioner, 453 Mass. 544, 553 (2009) 
(if two qualified examiners opine that petitioner is not 
currently sexually dangerous, Commonwealth cannot meet its 
burden in proceeding under G. L. c. 123A, § 9, to establish that 
petitioner remains sexually dangerous). 
While these proceedings were taking place, SORB separately 
considered whether Doe should be required to register as a sex 
offender pursuant to G. L. c. 6, §§ 178C-178Q, and, if so, at 
what level.  In May, 2010, two months before the trial on Doe's 
first petition for discharge, SORB notified Doe of its 
recommendation that he be classified as a level three sex 
offender.  See G. L. c. 6, § 178L.  Doe sought administrative 
review of SORB's recommended classification and, in July, 2010, 
1 A qualified examiner is a licensed psychiatrist or 
psychologist who "has had two years of experience with diagnosis 
or treatment of sexually aggressive offenders and is designated 
by the commissioner of correction."  G. L. c. 123A, § 1. 
 
                     
 
 
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two weeks before trial on his petition for discharge, but more 
than three years prior to his eventual discharge, an evidentiary 
hearing was conducted by a SORB hearing examiner.  See G. L. 
c. 6, § 178L (2).  In January, 2011, the hearing examiner issued 
a decision finally classifying Doe and ordering that he register 
as a level three sex offender.  Doe sought review of the final 
classification order in the Superior Court, pursuant to G. L. 
c. 30A, § 14 (7), and G. L. c. 6, § 178M.  A Superior Court 
judge affirmed, and Doe appealed.  We granted Doe's application 
for direct appellate review. 
Discussion.  1.  Retroactive application.  Unless relieved 
of the obligation to do so,2 every sex offender in the 
Commonwealth must register with SORB.  See G. L. c. 6, § 178E 
(a)-(c), (g)-(h), (l); Roe v. Attorney Gen., 434 Mass. 418, 424 
(2001).  Doe falls within the statutory definition of "sex 
offender," which includes a person "who has been adjudicated as 
a youthful offender or as a delinquent juvenile by reason of a 
sex offense . . . on or after August 1, 1981."  See G. L. c. 6, 
§ 178C.  General Laws c. 6, § 178K (2) (d), prohibits SORB from 
exercising its power to relieve an offender from registration in 
specified circumstances, including "if a sex offender has been 
2 As discussed infra, in limited circumstances, certain sex 
offenders may be relieved of the obligation to register, either 
by the sentencing judge or by the Sex Offender Registry Board 
(SORB).  See G. L. c. 6, §§ 178E (e), (f), 178K (2) (d). 
 
                     
 
 
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determined to be a sexually violent predator," or "has been 
convicted of a sex offense involving a child or a sexually 
violent offense, and such offender has not already registered 
pursuant to this chapter for at least ten years." 
Doe contends that the order to register as a level three 
sex offender, pursuant to G. L. c. 6, §§ 178C-178Q, was based 
solely on his juvenile adjudications in 1990 and 1991, which 
predated the enactment of the registration statute in 1996.3  As 
such, Doe maintains, the sex offender registration statute 
operates retroactively in effect, and is unconstitutional as 
applied to him.4  In considering Doe's retroactivity claim, we 
apply the "new legal consequences" test.  See Moe v. Sex 
Offender Registry Bd., 467 Mass. 598, 607 (2014).  A "statute is 
3 The sex offender registration statute, G. L. c. 6, 
§§ 178C-178Q, inserted by St. 1996, c. 239, § 1, was rewritten 
in 1999, see St. 1999, c. 74, § 2, and amended several times 
thereafter.  The version of the statute applicable here appears 
in St. 1999, c. 74, § 2, as amended through St. 2010, c. 267. 
 
4 Doe also argues, relying in part on Doe, Sex Offender 
Registry Bd. No. 8725 v. Sex Offender Registry Bd., 450 Mass. 
780, 786 (2008), that the requirement that he register as a 
level three offender for offenses committed while he was a 
juvenile, despite its stated regulatory purpose, is punitive as 
to him, and therefore in violation of constitutional 
prohibitions against ex post facto punishments and double 
jeopardy.  This argument is unavailing.  Even if the 
registration statute did have a retroactive effect as to Doe, 
that statute "is generally regulatory rather than punitive."  
See id. at 787-788, citing Commonwealth v. Bruno, 432 Mass. 489, 
499-502 (2000); Opinion of the Justices, 423 Mass. 1201, 1224-
1227 (1996).  Accordingly, the prohibitions against ex post 
facto punishments and double jeopardy do not apply. 
 
                     
 
 
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retroactive in effect where 'the new provision attaches new 
legal consequences to events completed before its enactment.'"  
Id., quoting Landgraf v. USI Film Prods., 511 U.S. 244, 269 
(1994).  Under this test, we examine "the degree of connection 
between the operation of the new rule" (Doe's obligation to 
register) "and a relevant past event" (Doe's juvenile 
adjudications).  See Landgraf v. USI Film Prods., supra at 268-
270. 
We have concluded previously that new legal consequences 
had attached, and therefore that the registration statute 
applied retroactively in effect, in a case where SORB 
"determin[ed] that [a sex offender] had a mandatory obligation 
to register annually, solely by virtue of his prior conviction."  
See Doe, Sex Offender Registry Bd. No. 8725 v. Sex Offender 
Registry Bd., 450 Mass. 780, 784-785 (2008) (Doe No. 8725).  In 
that case, the version of the statute then in effect, see 
St. 1999, c. 74, § 2, mandated that the offender register 
because he had been convicted of a sexually violent offense, and 
provided that, due to the nature of his conviction, the offender 
could "never be excused from registration."  Id. at 785, citing 
G. L. c. 6, § 178K (2) (d).  Because the sole basis for 
requiring that the offender register was his conviction of rape 
in 1979, we concluded that "the registration law attached new 
legal consequences to events that occurred before its 
 
 
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enactment," and "must be considered retroactive."  Id. at 787.  
We noted, however, that the registration statute would operate 
prospectively if "a conviction for sexual offenses . . . 
subject[s] a person only to potential registration and 
classification, or even a presumption of registration, with the 
ultimate registration requirement tied to an assessment (by 
[SORB]) of the person's current level of dangerousness and risk 
of reoffense."  Id. 
Here, SORB asserts that Doe's obligation to register is not 
automatic, because he is eligible for relief from registration 
under G. L. c. 6, § 178K (2) (d).5  Doe's juvenile adjudications, 
therefore, only made him eligible for potential classification 
and registration.  Moreover, the obligation to register requires 
evaluation of an offender's current risk of reoffense and danger 
to the community.  See Doe No. 7083, 472 Mass. at    .  The 
5 SORB states in its brief that "the [h]earing [e]xaminer 
could have relieved [Doe] of his duty to register," under G. L. 
c. 6, § 178K (2) (d), and Doe does not suggest that such is not 
the case.  We note that no provision in the registration statute 
explicitly states that an offender who has been "adjudicated" of 
the offenses listed in G. L. c. 6, § 178K (2) (d), is ineligible 
for relief from registration.  See Commonwealth v. Connor C., 
432 Mass. 635, 646 (2000) (under our long-standing jurisprudence 
"an 'adjudication' that a child has violated a law generally is 
not a 'conviction' of a crime").  Doe's juvenile 
"adjudications," therefore, would not appear to qualify as 
"convictions" precluding relief under G. L. c. 6, § 178K (2) 
(d).  Doe also has not been determined to be a sexually violent 
predator pursuant to G. L. c. 6, § 178K (2) (c), and 803 Code 
Mass. Regs. § 1.31 (2013). 
 
                     
 
 
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basis for the requirement that Doe register was not only his 
1990 and 1991 juvenile adjudications; Doe's obligation to 
register was based also on an evaluation of his risk to reoffend 
and his danger to the community as of the date of the 
evidentiary hearing in 2010.  See Doe No. 8725, supra at 793 
(offender entitled to hearing to determine whether he "is a 
current danger to vulnerable members of our communities").  Cf. 
Commonwealth v. Bruno, 432 Mass. 489, 491-492, 497-499 (2000) 
(concluding that SDP act, G. L. c. 123A, did not apply 
retroactively to offenders convicted of sex offenses predating 
1999 amendments to act, where convictions determined only 
eligibility for potential civil commitment and basis for 
commitment was "current mental condition").  Accordingly, no new 
legal consequences attached to Doe's juvenile adjudications, and 
the registration statute applied prospectively as to him. 
2.  Whether the classification determination was 
unsupported by substantial evidence.  Review of a hearing 
examiner's decision, pursuant to G. L. c. 30A, § 14, is 
"confined to the record."  G. L. c. 30A, § 14 (5).  A reviewing 
court may set aside or modify a hearing examiner's decision for 
any one of the reasons listed in G. L. c. 30A, § 14 (7), 
including that the decision was unsupported by substantial 
evidence.  "Substantial evidence" is "such evidence as a 
reasonable mind might accept as adequate to support a 
 
 
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conclusion."  G. L. c. 30A, § 1 (6). 
a.  Effect of youth.  Doe claims that his classification as 
a level three sex offender is unsupported by substantial 
evidence because the hearing examiner did not consider properly 
the recidivism rates of juvenile offenders.6  He asserts that 
SORB's regulations reflect outdated science.  In particular, Doe 
points to 803 Code Mass. Regs. § 1.40(4) (2013), known as factor 
4, which, when applied to a juvenile sex offender who is an 
adult at the time of classification, treats a sex offense 
committed by a juvenile as an aggravating factor.7  Doe contends 
6 Doe contends that, as to sex offenders who committed their 
offenses while they were juveniles, the registration requirement 
takes on a retributive nature where, according to Doe, 
scientific studies indicate that juvenile sex offenders have 
lower rates of recidivism.  Doe argues that, in light of the 
lower recidivism rates of juvenile sex offenders, a level three 
classification undermines the rehabilitative purpose of the 
juvenile justice system.  Doe claims also that there is no need 
to protect the public from what he asserts is his minimal risk 
of reoffense.  To the extent that Doe is arguing that SORB 
failed to make an individualized assessment of his risk of 
reoffense based on the fact that he was a juvenile when he 
committed the offenses, we conclude that he did have an 
individualized assessment. 
 
7 Factor 4, "Offender's Age at First Sex Offense," a factor 
indicative of an increased risk of reoffense and degree of 
dangerousness, applies to Doe because he was under twenty-one 
years old at the time he committed his offenses.  See 803 Code 
Mass. Regs. § 1.40(4) (2013).  A related risk factor, however, 
Factor 14, "Sex Offender was a Juvenile when He Committed the 
Offense, His Response to Treatment and Subsequent Criminal 
History," is not applicable as indicative of a decreased risk of 
reoffense and degree of dangerousness, because Doe was more than 
seventeen years old at the time of the classification hearing.  
See 803 Code Mass. Regs. § 1.40(14) (2013). 
                     
 
 
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that viewing a juvenile offense solely as an aggravating factor 
conflicts with more recent research regarding juvenile 
recidivism rates that indicates that juvenile sex offenders pose 
a decreased risk of reoffending. 
In specific circumstances, we have concluded that a hearing 
examiner erred in not considering proffered recent scientific 
evidence.  Where a sixty-one year old offender "presented 
evidence of numerous scientific and statistical studies, 
published during the last decade, that conclude that age is an 
important factor in determining the risk of recidivism and that 
such risk diminishes significantly as an offender ages," Doe, 
Sex Offender Registry Bd. No. 151564 v. Sex Offender Registry 
Bd., 456 Mass. 612, 621 (2010), we determined that the hearing 
examiner erred by not considering the proffered scientific 
evidence.  Id. at 622-623.  Similarly, in Doe, Sex Offender 
Registry Bd. No. 205614 v. Sex Offender Registry Bd., 466 Mass. 
594, 595 (2013), we held that "it was arbitrary and capricious 
for the hearing examiner to classify Doe's risk of reoffense and 
degree of dangerousness without considering the substantial 
evidence presented at the hearing [in the form of scientific 
studies] concerning the effect of gender on recidivism."  Here, 
however, because Doe did not raise any claim regarding recent 
research on juvenile recidivism rates before the hearing 
 
                                                                  
 
 
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examiner, and proffered no scientific studies or expert 
testimony at the classification hearing, the administrative 
record provides no basis on which we can conclude that the 
hearing examiner's decision was unsupported by substantial 
evidence.8 
Doe's argument that SORB's regulations do not reflect 
current scientific knowledge concerning the recidivism rates of 
juvenile offenders may be construed also as a challenge to the 
general validity of SORB's regulations.9  On this record, Doe 
8 Doe will have the opportunity to present new evidence, 
including scientific studies, at a new evidentiary hearing. 
 
9 We have emphasized repeatedly that, "[w]here, as here, 
scientific knowledge in a field is rapidly evolving, . . . the 
applicable standards may require more frequent modification in 
order to reflect accurately the current state of 
knowledge" (citation omitted).  Doe, Sex Offender Registry Bd. 
No. 151564 v. Sex Offender Registry Bd., 456 Mass. 612, 623 n.6 
(2010).  See Doe, Sex Offender Registry Bd. No. 68549 v. Sex 
Offender Registry Bd., 470 Mass. 102, 115-116 (2014); Doe, Sex 
Offender Registry Bd. No. 205614 v. Sex Offender Registry Bd., 
466 Mass. 594, 608 (2013). 
 
The studies on which SORB relied when promulgating factors 
4 and 14, the two factors most directly addressing juvenile 
offenders, are dated 1987, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1995, and 2001.  
See 803 Code Mass. Regs. §§ 1.40(4), (14) (2013).  SORB's 
regulations, therefore, do not exhibit consideration of an 
emerging consensus regarding the "mitigating qualities of 
youth," which is reflected in decisions of both the United 
States Supreme Court and this court.  See, e.g., Diatchenko v. 
District Attorney for the Suffolk Dist., 466 Mass. 655, 661 
(2013), S.C., 471 Mass. 12 (2015), quoting Miller v. Alabama, 
132 S. Ct. 2455, 2467 (2012).  See generally J.D.B. v. North 
Carolina, 131 S. Ct. 2394 (2011); Graham v. Florida, 560 U.S. 48 
(2010); Roper v. Simmons, 543 U.S. 551 (2005).  For a sex 
offender such as Doe, SORB's regulations direct a hearing 
                     
 
 
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fares no better under such an analysis.  "A challenge to the 
validity of a general regulation 'cannot be resolved by 
requesting declaratory relief in an appeal from an 
administrative agency decision because judicial review is 
confined to the administrative record.'"  Doe, Sex Offender 
Registry Bd. No. 68549 v. Sex Offender Registry Bd., 470 Mass. 
102, 114 (2014) (Doe No. 68549), quoting Doe, Sex Offender 
Registry Bd. No. 10800 v. Sex Offender Registry Bd., 459 Mass. 
603, 630 (2011). 
b.  Hearing examiner's findings.  Doe argues that two of 
the hearing examiner's findings are unsupported by substantial 
evidence and therefore erroneous. 
Doe points first to the hearing examiner's statement that 
Doe "admitted to sufficient facts to warrant a finding of 
delinquency . . . to two counts of forcible rape of a child."  
As Doe indicates, his admission to sufficient facts was only to 
one count of forcible rape of a child, and the statement thus is 
inaccurate.  But the hearing examiner made only a single, 
examiner to treat as an aggravating factor the fact that he 
committed his offenses as a juvenile, and do not prompt the 
hearing examiner to evaluate whether the "distinctive attributes 
of youth" such as "immaturity, impetuosity, and failure to 
appreciate risks and consequences" that contributed to his 
decision to offend might no longer be present because he has 
matured.  See Diatchenko v. District Attorney for the Suffolk 
Dist., supra at 675 (Lenk, J., concurring), quoting Miller v. 
Alabama, supra at 2465. 
 
                                                                  
 
 
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passing reference to a second count, and, when assessing Doe's 
level of risk, properly considered that Doe had admitted to 
sufficient facts as to only one count of forcible rape.  The 
hearing examiner accurately detailed the facts of Doe's prior 
offenses and appropriately applied the regulatory risk factors 
to the facts; the erroneous reference to a second count of rape 
did not affect the hearing examiner's analysis. 
Doe claims also that the hearing examiner based his finding 
that Doe had a history of substance or alcohol abuse on 
unreliable evidence.  SORB's regulations direct a hearing 
examiner to evaluate whether an offender "has a history of 
substance or alcohol abuse," 803 Code Mass. Regs. § 1.40(16) 
(2013).  The hearing examiner considered evidence that from 1988 
until 1990, as an adolescent, Doe drank six to twelve beers per 
week; that from 1997 until 1999, he received substance abuse 
treatment; and that, near the time of the offenses, he had used 
alcohol and marijuana.  Our review of a hearing examiner's 
decision "does not turn on whether, faced with the same set of 
facts, we would have drawn the same conclusion, . . . but only 
'whether a contrary conclusion is not merely a possible but a 
necessary inference.'"  Doe No. 68549, 470 Mass. at 110, quoting 
Goldberg v. Board of Health of Granby, 444 Mass. 627, 638 
(2005).  On this record, we cannot say that the hearing 
examiner's determination that Doe had a history of alcohol or 
 
 
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substance abuse was unsupported by substantial evidence. 
c.  Premature classification.  Doe argues that his 
classification was based on the hearing examiner's evaluation of 
circumstances or conditions at the July, 2010, hearing that were 
subject to change, and that, by the time of his release from the 
treatment center in September, 2013, the classification had 
become stale and materially inaccurate.  We agree. 
As noted, the registration statute requires that SORB base 
its classification decision on an offender's risk to reoffend 
and danger to the public based on information that is current 
when an incarcerated or civilly committed offender reenters the 
community.  See Doe No. 7083, 472 Mass. at    .  The 
circumstances supporting Doe's level three classification that 
were before the hearing examiner in July, 2010, however, had 
changed substantially by the time Doe was discharged in 
September, 2013.  For instance, in July, 2010, the hearing 
examiner considered evidence that Doe had been responding well 
to treatment, but determined that "it is too soon to tell 
whether or not [Doe] has genuinely internalized treatment 
concepts such [as] to sufficiently avoid reoffense."  By 2013, 
after three additional years of treatment, two qualified 
examiners opined that Doe was no longer sexually dangerous, and 
he was released into the community.  See Doe No. 7083, supra at     
("final classification must be based on an evaluation of the 
 
 
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offender's risk of reoffense at a time reasonably close to the 
actual date of discharge"); Doe, Sex Offender Registry Bd. No. 
6904 v. Sex Offender Registry Bd., 82 Mass. App. Ct. 67, 78 
(2012) (classification stale when based on evidence 
approximately four years old at time of offender's release from 
incarceration).  As discussed in Doe No. 7083, supra at    , 
Doe's ability to seek reclassification every three years, see 
803 Code Mass. Regs. § 1.37C(1), (2) (2013), does not afford an 
adequate remedy for a final classification that was stale at the 
time he was released and was required to register as a level 
three offender. 
Conclusion.  Because Doe's final classification was based 
on an evaluation of his risk several years before his release 
into the community, Doe is entitled to a new evidentiary hearing 
at which SORB will bear the burden of establishing Doe's current 
risk of reoffense and degree of dangerousness, consistent with 
the procedures set forth in 803 Code Mass. Regs. §§ 1.07-1.26 
(2013).  See Doe No. 7083, 472 Mass. at    .  That hearing, at 
which SORB may introduce all the evidence introduced at Doe's 
first hearing, must be conducted within a reasonable time.  The 
matter is remanded to the Superior Court for entry of an order 
of remand to SORB for further proceedings consistent with this 
opinion. 
So ordered.