Michigan Supreme Court Upholds 2021 Sex Offender Registration Act AS APPLIED to one individual – It’s punishment, just not cruel and unusual punishment

The Michigan Supreme Court recently issued a decision in People of Michigan v. Robert James Kardasz, a case that once again highlights how courts across the country are grappling with the constitutional limits of modern sex-offender registration laws. While the ruling directly applies only to Michigan, its reasoning has clear implications for Florida and other states that maintain expansive, lifetime

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MA: Massachusetts Supreme Court Win on GPS Monitoring

The Supreme Judicial Court considered whether the duration of GPS monitoring imposed as a condition of probation under G. L. c. 265, § 47 is constitutionally permissible under art. 14 of the Massachusetts Declaration of Rights. Section 47 mandates that defendants convicted of certain sex offenses “shall” be subject to GPS monitoring for the entire length of probation. However, in

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Convicted sex offenders challenge Wisconsin’s lifetime GPS tracking at Seventh Circuit

A class of convicted sex offenders in Wisconsin maintained to a Seventh Circuit panel Tuesday that the state’s lifetime GPS monitoring requirement runs afoul of the Fourth Amendment. “No one denies the seriousness of sexual offending or the state’s strong interest in combating it, but the Fourth Amendment does not ask whether a search feels intuitively justified. It asks whether

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PA: Residents rally to halt proposed transitional home for sex offenders

A transitional home for sex offenders was proposed in a Huntingdon County community, which led to dozens of residents showing up to a special meeting about it Monday night. At the meeting, several Jackson Township residents shared their concerns about potential transitional housing in the community. However, township and nonprofit leaders reassured the public that this will not be happening.

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