State Supreme Courts – The Registry Report

Category: State Supreme Courts

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Constitutionality, Judicial, Michigan, SORNA, State Supreme Courts

Michigan AG: Registry is Punitive & Negates Public Safety

February 8, 2019 — 3 Comments

Guest Bloggers, Judicial, Juvenile Offenders, Life on the SO Registry, New Jersey, Reintegration & Rehabilitation, State Supreme Courts

Science & Law Evolve Together, This Registry Case Reminds Us

May 28, 2018 — 0 Comments

Constitutionality, Guest Bloggers, Judicial, Michigan, Opinion, Politics, Reintegration & Rehabilitation, SORNA, State Supreme Courts, US Supreme Court, Vigilantism

SO Registry Endangers the Lives of Those It Was Meant to Protect

May 27, 2018 — 0 Comments

14th Amendment, 5th Amendment, California, Constitutionality, Guest Bloggers, Juvenile Offenders, Legislative, Opinion, SORNA, South Carolina, State Supreme Courts

TheHill.com Op-Ed: SORNA Vengeful, Unconstitutional and Due for Full Repeal

May 26, 2018 — 0 Comments

Louisiana Senate committee passes bill to roll back early release for multiple felony convictions except sex offenses May 19, 2022
Legislation to roll back some criminal justice reforms implemented in 2017 in regards to repeat nonviolent felony offenders cleared a Senate Committee on Judiciary on Tuesday. House Bill 544, sponsored by Rep. Debbie Villio, R-Kenner, would roll back calculations for early release adopted through the Louisiana Justice Reinvestment […] Read more
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Data shows Arkansas 3rd highest rate of registered sex offenders in U.S. May 19, 2022
There are 767,000 registered sex offenders across the nation and 18,000 of those live in Arkansas. The data says that just under 600 registered sex offenders per 100-thousand residents. This data comes from safehome.org. Senior industry analyst, Corie Colliton says since there is no national sex offender registry, they’ve […] Read more
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A big win for South Carolina registrants – a “true miracle” May 13, 2022
By Don T . . . We reported earlier on the bills that had been introduced in the South Carolina legislature in answer to last year’s SC Supreme Court decision that our arbitrary lifetime registration, without due process, was unconstitutional. Now, we can happily report on May 12th, “It’s a great day in South Carolina!” The effort has taken a…
DonT
Conference Drawing Helps to Support NARSOL’s Mission May 7, 2022
Each year, we offer our members and supporters a chance to win some great prizes that have been generously donated to us as one way to help us to fund the world-class conferences we’ve all come to expect from NARSOL. This year’s prizes include a Shark EZ self-emptying robot home vacuum system, a Camp Chef Pellet Grill XT, a quality…
Michael McKay
NARSOL offers academic scholarships for the first time this year May 6, 2022
If you are a college graduate or undergraduate student in a social service or legal-related field, or if you are a faculty member in one of the approved fields, you may be eligible to attend our conference with the aid of an academic scholarship. Check out the full eligibility criteria here. The application and mailing instructions for it are also…
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Glenn Martin – 20 years of CJ reform, from the inside out April 29, 2022
When Glenn was being released in 2000, after a six-year term of incarceration in New York prisons, he experienced something that would in no small way help formulate his path for the years to come. “The correctional officer who was in charge of my release looked me in the eye,” Glenn reports, “and told me he would be seeing my…
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No sex-offender status for men convicted under anti-sodomy law in South Carolina April 25, 2022
Men convicted under South Carolina’s anti-sodomy law will no longer be required to register as a sex offender, according to a settlement agreement. The settlement was reached April 22 between Attorney General Alan Wilson, South Carolina Law Enforcement Division Chief Mark Keel and the state’s ACLU chapter. ACLU attorneys filed [… Read more
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Some to be removed from sex offender registry in South Carolina April 23, 2022
By Rochelle Dean . . . In a settlement agreement with South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson along with State Law Enforcement Division Chief Mark Keel those wrongly convicted of sodomy in the state of South Carolina will now be taken off of the Sex Offender Registry in the Palmetto State. The announcement comes after arguments in Mary Geiger Lewis’s cou […]
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“Don’t turn good intentions into bad policy,” says NARSOL advocate Prizio of CT’s OSJ April 23, 2022
By Dave Altimari . . . The state Senate late Wednesday passed a bill to establish a task force to study the placement of registered sex offenders in long-term care facilities, following an incident last year in which a Massachusetts man allegedly sexually assaulted a nurse at an East Windsor facility. The task force is a compromise after the initial bill, pr […]
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Dr. Chrysanthi Leon Asks Re-entry Workers: “Why Would You Do This?” April 20, 2022
People who are convicted of sexual offenses typically experience great difficulties in finding employment or a place to live after incarceration, even while participating in legally mandated re-entry programs and therapy. The professionals who provide these services or work in these re-entry programs may experience secondary stigma as a result of being assoc […]
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Louisiana Senate committee passes bill to roll back early release for multiple felony convictions except sex offenses May 19, 2022
Legislation to roll back some criminal justice reforms implemented in 2017 in regards to repeat nonviolent felony offenders cleared a Senate Committee on Judiciary on Tuesday. House Bill 544, sponsored by Rep. Debbie Villio, R-Kenner, would roll back calculations for early release adopted through the Louisiana Justice Reinvestment […] Read more
admin
Data shows Arkansas 3rd highest rate of registered sex offenders in U.S. May 19, 2022
There are 767,000 registered sex offenders across the nation and 18,000 of those live in Arkansas. The data says that just under 600 registered sex offenders per 100-thousand residents. This data comes from safehome.org. Senior industry analyst, Corie Colliton says since there is no national sex offender registry, they’ve […] Read more
admin
A big win for South Carolina registrants – a “true miracle” May 13, 2022
By Don T . . . We reported earlier on the bills that had been introduced in the South Carolina legislature in answer to last year’s SC Supreme Court decision that our arbitrary lifetime registration, without due process, was unconstitutional. Now, we can happily report on May 12th, “It’s a great day in South Carolina!” The effort has taken a…
DonT
Conference Drawing Helps to Support NARSOL’s Mission May 7, 2022
Each year, we offer our members and supporters a chance to win some great prizes that have been generously donated to us as one way to help us to fund the world-class conferences we’ve all come to expect from NARSOL. This year’s prizes include a Shark EZ self-emptying robot home vacuum system, a Camp Chef Pellet Grill XT, a quality…
Michael McKay
NARSOL offers academic scholarships for the first time this year May 6, 2022
If you are a college graduate or undergraduate student in a social service or legal-related field, or if you are a faculty member in one of the approved fields, you may be eligible to attend our conference with the aid of an academic scholarship. Check out the full eligibility criteria here. The application and mailing instructions for it are also…
admin
Glenn Martin – 20 years of CJ reform, from the inside out April 29, 2022
When Glenn was being released in 2000, after a six-year term of incarceration in New York prisons, he experienced something that would in no small way help formulate his path for the years to come. “The correctional officer who was in charge of my release looked me in the eye,” Glenn reports, “and told me he would be seeing my…
admin
No sex-offender status for men convicted under anti-sodomy law in South Carolina April 25, 2022
Men convicted under South Carolina’s anti-sodomy law will no longer be required to register as a sex offender, according to a settlement agreement. The settlement was reached April 22 between Attorney General Alan Wilson, South Carolina Law Enforcement Division Chief Mark Keel and the state’s ACLU chapter. ACLU attorneys filed [… Read more
admin
Some to be removed from sex offender registry in South Carolina April 23, 2022
By Rochelle Dean . . . In a settlement agreement with South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson along with State Law Enforcement Division Chief Mark Keel those wrongly convicted of sodomy in the state of South Carolina will now be taken off of the Sex Offender Registry in the Palmetto State. The announcement comes after arguments in Mary Geiger Lewis’s cou […]
admin
“Don’t turn good intentions into bad policy,” says NARSOL advocate Prizio of CT’s OSJ April 23, 2022
By Dave Altimari . . . The state Senate late Wednesday passed a bill to establish a task force to study the placement of registered sex offenders in long-term care facilities, following an incident last year in which a Massachusetts man allegedly sexually assaulted a nurse at an East Windsor facility. The task force is a compromise after the initial bill, pr […]
admin
Dr. Chrysanthi Leon Asks Re-entry Workers: “Why Would You Do This?” April 20, 2022
People who are convicted of sexual offenses typically experience great difficulties in finding employment or a place to live after incarceration, even while participating in legally mandated re-entry programs and therapy. The professionals who provide these services or work in these re-entry programs may experience secondary stigma as a result of being assoc […]
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