MI: Attorney General Files Amicus Brief Agreeing that SORA is punitive.
Here’s the conclusion from the Michigan Attorney General: “Michigan’s Sex Offender Registry Act, taken as a whole, imposes burdens that are so punitive in their effect that they negate the State’s public safety justifications. Accordingly, Amicus Curiae Attorney General Dana Nessel asks this Court to hold that SORA is punishment and its retroactive application violates the Ex Post Facto Clauses of the Michigan and United States constitutions. The unconstitutional 2011 amendments cannot be severed without leaving an Act that is inoperable without remedial efforts that are quintessentially legislative. Protecting the children and families of Michigan from sexual offending is critical, but it is the Legislature’s task to determine how best to do so within constitutional constraints.”
Read the entire Brief: 445142629-AG-Nessel-Amicus
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Finally, somebody gets it!!!!!
Some lawmakers in Georgia are also starting to show some common sense:
ps://www.ajc.com/news/state–regional-govt–politics/georgia-panel-nixes-bill-bar-sex-offenders-from-living-near-victims/RqPRRyZPCdu7rhKIjYxtdI/
It still may pass. After reading it, they didn’t like the wording of the penalties , up to 30 years in prison due to being more harsh than an actual sex offense. What they will probably do is re-write the law and re-propose it in the next session with less harsh penalties.
On a side note, most registry violations, like forgetting an email address you owned during the civil war times, still carry a max sentence of more than many got for an actual sex related offense.
For example, some got 10 years probation and yet almost all violations carry some sort of prison sentence although the so called crime, never hurt anyone.
Like I said before ( And many others ) they are just trying to somehow get us all into prison camps. Surprised they have not built special sex offender camps in each state with 500 foot tall walls with razor wire and armed tower guards.
Have any of you thought the possibility that the legislature has been dragging it’s feet so that they can have a new bill to ramrod into law as soon as the current S.O.R. is overturned so that the process starts over again.