Comments on: MI: ACLU suit seeks changes to Michigan sex offender registry

By: Florida Action Committee

Florida Action Committee — Tue, 22 Jan 2019 20:36:19 +0000

In reply to Jacob. Yes

By: Sex Offender Truth

Sex Offender Truth — Tue, 22 Jan 2019 18:05:56 +0000

OK well, homeless was just an example. I was referring to the lifetime registry being the same situation as the other state and is really nothing but being out on parole with restrictions, ;aw enforcement monitoring, and everything else. Have they addressed that? The life time condition with no way off the registry even when permanently out of the state.

Every single person labelled with “sex offender” in Florida is listed for life and suffers as a result of it – THAT must change.

By: Jacob

Jacob — Tue, 22 Jan 2019 17:38:11 +0000

In reply to Florida Action Committee. Not lost yet— they are appealing! (Right?)

By: JZ

JZ — Tue, 22 Jan 2019 14:34:30 +0000

Even with a prior court victory, registered citizens in Michigan still have to wait for years while reform is slow-walked by the legislature. Shameful! Just as laws are passed with effective dates, judgments should also be in order to prevent this sort of travesty. Justice delayed is justice denied!

By: Sean

Sean — Tue, 22 Jan 2019 13:39:22 +0000

“Banner said state police are unable to take people off the list who had been retroactively required to report for life.”

If they can put you on the registry with a few keystrokes; they can take you off with a few keystrokes !

By: Jerry

Jerry — Tue, 22 Jan 2019 13:32:53 +0000

I can understand the lifetime registry if it were for SVPs and repeat offenders, but for the most part there would never be another offence committed by SOs.

By: Gerald

Gerald — Tue, 22 Jan 2019 04:05:35 +0000

One correction to the original post. The school exclusion zone in Michigan is 1,000 feet, not 100. The Sixth Circuit did take the easy way out by not addressing the District Court’s finding that the registry itself was mostly unconstitutional. Banning retroactive rules satisfied the claims of the 5 plaintiffs, so they decided not to address the entire lower court decision. Still, the ex post facto victory affects a lot of us in Michigan. It was nice to finally see a high court declare that the registry is, indeed, a punishment in itself. I hope this lawsuit speeds changes up, and that it spreads nationwide eventually.

By: Florida Action Committee

Florida Action Committee — Tue, 22 Jan 2019 03:36:18 +0000

In reply to Sex Offender Truth. ACLU filed an action on behalf of the Homeless in Florida. That was lost recently.

By: Sex Offender Truth

Sex Offender Truth — Tue, 22 Jan 2019 03:31:27 +0000

When will the ACLU realize the same thing is going on in Florida and take some action?

How many more registed citizens are going to have to become homeless before anything is done?

We are also on lifetime parole and I would like to be released while I still have a few good years left to enjoy my one and only life on this planet!