MI: lawmakers debate changes to states sex offender registry law
Michigan lawmakers are debating how to overhaul the state’s sex offender registry after a federal appeals court ruled sections of the law are unconstitutional, but Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel is contending the proposed fixes don’t repair the law’s flaws.
As Democratic and Republican elected officials wrestle over the best solution to a highly charged issue, a federal judge has freed the state’s 44,000 convicted sex offenders from complying with registry reporting requirements because of the novel coronavirus outbreak and confusion about the current registry.
Among the state’s registry restrictions the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals struck down in 2016 were a ban on convicted sex offenders from living, working or loitering within 1,000 feet of schools and a 2011 revision of the law that put sex offenders back on the registry permanently if they committed a felony after they had served their sentences and had been taken off the registry.
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Here is the new proposed Michigan bill: https://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2019-2020/billintroduced/House/pdf/2020-HIB-5679.pdf
Here is the contact info for the bill’s author: http://gophouse.org/representatives/central/lower/contact-rep-lower/
Here is the text of what I sent (it may sound a bit testy, but I believe that measure outrage is called for):
Dear Sir:
Although I am from a different state (Florida), I feel it incumbent upon me to briefly express my thoughts on proposed House Bill 5679, as I am taken aback at your proposed changes to the existing law.
Sir, the several rulings from the courts have said, in sum total, that a complete overhaul of Michigan’s broken registry system must be undertaken; for, a great many parts of the current legislation are blatantly unconstitutional!
You have proposed nothing more than a few minor definitional changes and are trying to establish at least 50 new registry systems, within Michigan, by insisting that emigrants from other states be held to the state-of-origin’s enacted statutes. This leads me to believe that you have absolutely no respect for any constitution, nor any law!
You have refused to abide by the judiciary!
If your bill (or any legislation similar to it) is passed by your congress, you will have collectively snubbed your noses at the rule of law!
Truly,
Jjjj
I will read the bill and be writing my own emails this evening. Lately I wanted the people I know that live in Michigan to make their voice heard before I did anything. I have no problem writing for my opposition to proposed bills. No problem for calling me out either
Brandon, you are a super-hero!!! I believe you said, in another post, that you are not even a Florida resident. Well, in my opinion, that makes your contributions that much more appreciated!
Thanks for helping us out !!!
Everyone that speaks up is a hero to us!!!!
Thanks Again! 🙂 🙂 🙂
I believe we all need to speak out I think @ Brandon is in Florida yet standing up for others rights in other state issues
we are all in this together people on the registry and off we need to stand NOW
Im currently researching Missouri and Illinois for sanctuary from this life if hell
so far seems Missouri says it dont matter if your on or off your still registering yet what they are doing is unconstitutional making people believe they have to register when they really dont.. I have a email from Adele on that as well
The idea of an “independent federal duty to register” under SORNA is completely bogus, IMO, and I’m quite surprised that Missouri is pushing that as a basis for retroactive registration.
Ill have more on Illinois this week
Hey #experiened
I have looked at the federal statute, and it say some sort of mumbo jumbo about interstate commerce.
That could be important.
Also, as far as I can see, the federal law simply takes a state’s charge of failure to register and add a federal charge to it with steeper penalties.
So the federal obligation to register does not exist – only a federal penalty for not registering. There is no federal registry. There are only state, territorial and tribal registries.
When they are put into one webpage conglomerate, they are called a federal registry. But a fed registry does not, in fact, exist.
Also, I think that the fed penalty in only triggered if you have also engaged in interstate commerce in addition to a stat’s failure to register.
Just my opinion. And I am not a lawyer.
If you need my source materials on the subject, just let me know and I will share a link to my archives.
Is that Illinois or Missouri? information as this is on the Mo site
On June 16, 2009 the Missouri Supreme Court ruled that federally mandated registration requirements under the Sexual Offenders Registration and Notification Act (SORNA) applies to individuals who committed a sex offense prior to July 20, 2006. Therefore, SORNA imposes an independent obligation requiring respondents to register as sex offenders in Missouri. The independent registration requirement under SORNA operates irrespective of any allegedly retrospective state law that has been enacted and may be subject to the Article 1, Section 13 of the Missouri State Constitution.
same BS they blew smoke on in an email
entire Page
https://www.mshp.dps.missouri.gov/MSHPWeb/PatrolDivisions/CRID/SOR/factsheet.html#2009
Jjjj
I’m not a super hero but thanks for the compliment. When I see or hear about an injustice across the country I make sure my voice is heard loudly. You are correct I used to live in Florida; but I left the state about a year ago. If there’s anything I can do to help let me know. United we stand; divided we fall and it’s time to knock this dam known as the registry Just like the Berlin Wall fell!!