\As. AN, -Le Su,vara .—Movccies, -A.AQ.1/46., - .ass• ao Task force rewriting sex offender registry • JUDI SHIMEL • ST. THOMAS = Officials' from law enforcement:are working to Upgrade thlway they keep track of • sex offenders in the Virgin Islands. The territorybas until July to corn- • ply: ith federal rules established back In 2006. Local members-of the. SORNA Task Fined recently completed A . serninar on meeting the require- ments ofihe Sex Offender Regis- tration Notification Act All U.S. states and territories are required to enact the requirements spelled out lathe act by July. • The notification act mates a uni- fied standard for apprehendipg, tracldng and trionitoringregi.stered sex offenders. There are currently 60 sex offenders registered in, the tenitory. . The two-day compliance semi- nar. led by Attorney General Vin- cent Frazer, was held. last week at . the Wyndham Sugar Bay Resort. Much of the work done at the Sem- War was re-writing the local sex offender law. • • SORNA task force members • incbide representatives from. the Office of the Governor, the Virgin • Islands Police Department' the U.S. .. Attorneys Office, the U.S. Marshal Service. the Bureau of Corrections, the VI Department of Health. VI Department of Human Services. the Superior Court. the Office of Probation and Parole and the Sex- ual Registry Board. -Since July 'of 2009, the. Virgin Islands SORNA Task Force, spear- headed by Attorney General Vincent F. Frazer, has been Meeting regtit lady and working diligently todevel- pp the ,appropriate language.to • amend .the. tenitorys' existing Sex Offender Registration. Stattite to meet SORNA requirernents by the imposed deadline," said VI Depart- thent of Justice spokesperson SaralrIzzaina. ' ' Under the new rules, offenders will be elassified according to the severity of their crimes. The el the offense; the, longetthe offiind- erwffi be subject to.acrtitirry.ThciSe who commit the giost