[kddani]

I just checked out the site, very interesting, especially since right now i'm working on a paper for our Law Review Write-On competition on Megan's Law's. Every state in the US has one of these laws, and it's somewhat similar- basically it requires all sex offenders to register with the law enforcement agency whereever they live and allows the dissemination of this information. The specifics vary from state to state, but most have websites with the info, other communities actually will have door-to-door campaigns to alert people of sex offenders in their neighborhoods.

As for the admissibility of the petition and validity- I guess it wouldn't be much different from a normal, written petition. It does ask for specific info, so you could easily weed out all the "Ima Jackoff"s and "Mike Hunt"s from the list. As for how much weight it would hold, i'm not sure. I'm not very familiar with the Canadian court system.

I think that it would be more effective for concerned people to contact their legislators. But once again, I know nothing of the Canadian system of government. Just using what I know about the US to conjecture. Thus far, Megan's Laws have been upheld by the Supreme Court of the US.