NARSOL files suit over Oklahoma Driver’s License branding
The National Association for Rational Sexual Offense Laws (of which FAC is the Florida affiliate) and OK Voices (the Oklahoma affiliate of NARSOL) has filed a civil rights lawsuit in the Northern District of Oklahoma challenging the Constitutionality of an Oklahoma Statute that requires the driver’s licenses of persons required to register as sexual offenders be branded with the marking “Sex Offender”.
The Complaint alleges the branding constitutes compelled speech in violation of the First Amendment. The plaintiffs seek declaratory and injunctive relief against the Commissioner of the Oklahoma Department of Public Safety and the Attorney General of the state, preventing them from branding individual’s licenses. A similar federal lawsuit was successful in Alabama and one challenging the “Sexual Predator” label on Florida licenses was successful here.
FAC wishes lots of luck to NARSOL and OK Voices, and especially to the brave individuals who agreed to be named plaintiffs in the lawsuit! You got this one!!!
A copy of the complaint, hot off the press, is below:
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Not only is the label ‘sexual predator’ on a driver’s license ‘compelled speech’ and therefore illegal, but whenever a registrant signs a regstration document that contains a personal label on it illegal as well because it also is ‘compelled speech’ in that it is seen by the public on the internet.
Basically the states pulled a https://youtu.be/BwSts2s4ba4?si=0NkH-4EaZhujpLao
This is the second time in OK this effort has been done with the first one in the state’s favor in the end. Hope the lesson was learned there about what really needed to be done so it will be successful when it reaches Denver and the 10th CCOA.