MI: lawmakers debate changes to states sex offender registry law
Michigan lawmakers are debating how to overhaul the state’s sex offender registry after a federal appeals court ruled sections of the law are unconstitutional, but Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel is contending the proposed fixes don’t repair the law’s flaws.
As Democratic and Republican elected officials wrestle over the best solution to a highly charged issue, a federal judge has freed the state’s 44,000 convicted sex offenders from complying with registry reporting requirements because of the novel coronavirus outbreak and confusion about the current registry.
Among the state’s registry restrictions the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals struck down in 2016 were a ban on convicted sex offenders from living, working or loitering within 1,000 feet of schools and a 2011 revision of the law that put sex offenders back on the registry permanently if they committed a felony after they had served their sentences and had been taken off the registry.
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JJJJ
obvious Mr Brandon dont share to the group with the names and emails of the people
I’m not a Michigan resident and never have been. Just like you I responded to this post with my thoughts. Guess I need your approval to write to lawmakers that have and never will make laws impacting my life.
Sir, have you read the bill that they are proposing?
Maybe we all need to email them!
Believe me, brother when I say, you don’t need anybody’s permission to send as many emails as you like.
Just please send them!
(They’ll read emails from non-residents too, I believe.)
Does anybody have the link from the committee meeting about Michigan’s proposed bill? I need that for ammunition to my arguments that the majority of the residents were against the bill.
If I were the judge in Michigan I’d hold all of the legislators in contempt of court. Maybe then those piss ants will never defy a judge again.
Michigan State Police Col. Joseph Gasper … also called for stricter rules governing sex offenders who move to Michigan from other states.
“Any revision of (the law) should ensure and clarify that an individual convicted in another state of an offense requiring sex offender registration in that state should, at a minimum, be required to register in Michigan for a similar duration under substantially similar terms regardless of the date of offense,” he wrote.
“Otherwise, registered sex offenders from other states with offenses prior to Michigan’s 2011 amendments to (the law) could seek sanctuary from all sex offender registration by simply relocating to Michigan.”
With all the talk of criminal justice reform, this is the perfect time to discuss the need for reform of the registry and all the draconian laws that go with it. I have been looking for such articles to comment on the need to include registrants in this reform.
Since then, I have had my own personal Facebook account compromised with some unsolicited activity. I deleted that account. FAC made it possible for me to continue posting comments under a different account name. I had great success for 5 days. I have now been locked out of that account because of suspicious activity.
I am starting to wonder if there is someone out there who is determined to stop my comments. I am not giving up.
So sorry this is happening on fb SarahF. It has become such a toxic place since I was last there, possibly giving an outlet to vigilantes, yet you potentially reach a wide audience. Heartburn.
Jacob
I can email NARSOL and Nebraskans Unafraid about advocacy groups in Iowa. I have to do something with all this time on my hands due to a blown out knee.
I also shot them an email as well we need more support!
More encouraging Iowa news: this dumb bill may have died in committee:
https://www.legis.iowa.gov/legislation/BillBook?ga=88&ba=HF79
I actually read this with a list of bills to be introduced Fisher had to sneak it in there I need to find the list
Jacob see if you can work these links
https://www.legis.iowa.gov/legislation/BillBook?ga=88&ba=HF79
https://www.legis.iowa.gov/legislation/billTracking/billHistory?billName=HF%2079&ga=88
Eleventh Calendar Day – Eighth Session Day
Hall of the House of Representatives
Des Moines, Iowa, Thursday, January 24, 2019
The House met pursuant to adjournment at 8:30
INTRODUCTION OF BILLS
House File 79, by Fisher, a bill for an act modifying sex offender
registry requirements by requiring sex offenders whose registration
requirements have expired to reregister, and providing penalties.
Read first time and referred to committee on Judiciary
all I found of this Bill pray its dead
all I know of is IowaRSOadvocate
@cnvtmiller_k on twitter but no response out of her
we need someone on twitter as well to get to her
I received an email from her. I won’t post her email unless I have permission.
@ Brandon
Looks as if fishers bill didnt stick to the wall this time around
no need to post the email just if the bill is dead or ongoing? or outcome