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Wash. Court of Appeals published opinion — D2 45190-5-II Published Opinion.pdf

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Wash. Court of Appeals published opinion — D2 45190-5-II Published Opinion.pdf
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If Chavez' s home was no longer Breidt' s residence, then Breidt' s residence address had to have

been somewhere else. A person of common intelligence would have understood that being evicted

and moving out of a house was a change of residence address that required updating one' s sex

offender registration with the sheriff' s office.

Breidt asserts that the phrase " changes his or her residence address" is vague because a

change of one' s residence " could occur when a person ceases to pay rent, receives notice of

eviction, sleeps some predetermined number of nights at another location, changes his /her mailing

address, or leaves without intending to return to the original address." Br. of Appellant at 7. Breidt

is correct —there are several ways in which conduct could be considered a change of residence

address. However, the requirement of sufficient definiteness " does not demand ` impossible

standards of specificity or absolute agreement,' and it permits some amount of imprecision in the

language of the statute." Jenkins, 100 Wn. App. at 90 ( quoting Coria, 120 Wn.2d at 163). It is

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possible that there may be some situations in which it is not absolutely clear that a person has

changed his or her residence address. But, as explained above, the meaning of "changes his or her

residence address" is sufficiently clear to provide a person of common intelligence with an

understanding of when a sex offender is required to notify the sheriff's office that he or she has

changed his or her residence.

Breidt has failed to meet his burden to demonstrate that the sex offender registration statute