Agues why SORNA Should Not Be Applied Retroactively to Children and Youth Adjudicated within the Juvenile Court System: 1) The Attorney General “underestimates how difficult it would be for the states to apply the mandates of the Act retroactively.” 2) CJJ asserts the retroactivity runs afoul of fundamental fairness. At the time of disposition, neither the judge nor the juvenile nor the prosecuting or defending attorney were proceeding with the expectation that the child’s adjudication would trigger the additional sanction of registering for 25 years to life as a sex offender.