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D's statute requires DPS to compile the information gathered from registrants and publicize it. DPS must post a sex offender registry on an Internet Website and make the registry available to the public in certain state offices. The registry is based on the legislature's decision to facilitate access to publicly-available information about persons convicted of sexual offenses. Those included within the registry are included solely by virtue of their conviction record and state law. P is a convicted sex offender who is subject to D's Megan's Law. He filed this action claiming that the law violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. P alleged that he is not a ''dangerous sexual offender,'' and that the Connecticut law 'deprives him of a liberty interest -- his reputation combined with the alteration of his status under state law -- without notice or a meaningful opportunity to be heard.' The District Court granted summary judgment for P on his due process claim. The court then certified a class of individuals subject to the Connecticut law, and permanently enjoined the law's public disclosure provisions. The Court of Appeals affirmed. It held that the law implicated a 'liberty interest' because of the 'implication' that P is 'currently dangerous.' The court held that P must be given an opportunity to demonstrate that he was not 'likely to be currently dangerous.' D appealed.

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