State won't provide sex offender program remedies, despite request
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The state will not offer ideas for how to fix the beleaguered Minnesota Sex Offender Program, as a federal judge has requested.
In June, U.S. Judge Donovan Frank ruled the Minnesota Sex Offender Program unconstitutional because it doesn't give those detained any clear path to release.
This week, Frank asked all sides to come up with a list of remedies to bring the program that holds more than 700 people into compliance.
In a letter Friday, Deputy Attorney General Nathan Brennaman, said the state will not provide a list of remedies because it believes the program is constitutional.
Instead, the state will file a response to any remedies sought by sex offenders and others in the program.
Brennaman says Gov. Mark Dayton and Legislature may come up with answers, too, but he did not indicate what those would be.
Frank said he may resort to a "more forceful solution" if state leaders don't demonstrate that they're willing to fix the program on their own.
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