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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Registry is way worse than felony probation, more rules and ways to violate. I have registered 7 times this year making sure I stay in compliance because I know there are detectives seeking to and fro… not seeking to keep kids safe but looking to take someone’s liberties, livelihood, and re-punish over car tags emails, jobs, where you live. I’ve violated one of these stupid ex post facto laws and cost me over 10k dollars, freedom plus the opportunity cost of this punishment adds up and irreplaceable. Meanwhile all my buddies that did the exact same thing live normal lives. If I’m a SO so was probably 25 percent of my high school and ain’t even looking at teen girls but protecting their own kids while mine grew up humiliated and no one can tell me this didn’t affect the way my kids turned out. They are tough kids but in my heart I know they would have been so much more!
If you are not aware, in Florida at least, they ( The registry Nazis ) are trying to get all of us at least one NEW charge for anything, even spitting on the sidewalk so that we can never apply to get off the registry.
Even a single re-arrest since you were put on the registry makes you ineligible to apply to get off registry and the law enforcers are eating that loophole up with joy.
Hallelujah
if i remember correctly the MI AG did something similar 2 – 3 years ago and then sort of back stepped a few months later.
You actually mean there’s an official with some damn common sense and intelligence out there? Holy cow 😮, maybe their are other’s, shhhhhhh.
Protect the children???? Not everyone on the registry had sex with a child. And even so, all of us who were grandfathered into the new laws are being double jeopardied since we had no say in the matter and was added after either we made a plea or completed our sentences or were serving it.
Let us call the registry what it is, Punishment, Punitive, a life sentence AFTER our sentence. Harmful to us and our loved ones who did nothing to deserve this even if somehow they think we do.
Well, i hear the summers are nice…