State law-enforcement officials argue that the notification provisions provide for public protection and were not intended to produce ostracism or vigilantism.

She asserted that the parental notification provision could force some teen-agers into risking illegal abortions.

Pesticide companies argue that the notification provision is burdensome.

The spousal notification provision is supposed to send the message that husbands have rights, too.

How we craft that notification provision is what we're working on now.

Both courts upheld the law as a valuable public safety tool that, through its notification provisions, helped protect women and children.

But the new laws have been beset by challenges, with most of the debate focusing on the notification provisions.

Hence, the effect of the public notification provisions is to punish.

The judge will hear arguments next Monday on the constitutionality of the notification provisions of the law.

Previous challenges to the law's notification provisions have identified parolees only by initials, some fictitious.