A federal judge is commanding state authorities to stop enforcing rules under the Michigan Sex Offender Registry Act during the coronavirus pandemic.
According to an interim order U.S. District Judge Robert Cleland issued Monday, officials are “preliminarily enjoined from enforcing registration, verification, school zone, and fee violations of (the act) that occurred or may occur from February 14, 2020, until the current crisis has ended, and thereafter until registrants are notified of what duties they have under SORA going forward.”
So everyone who still have to go in and register should remember to sneeze and cough violently while they’re at the sheriffs office… 😝
Just like all the stores open they know it takes 14 days to even get symptoms there’s no way to pinpoint you get it from jail registering. They need todo it by phone always should have been done by phone. They could give everyone a fingerprint scanner with GPS all you do touch the scanner call in and done. They’d save money and less out our pocket. Workers comp only writing 100k policy right now they are getting ready to take a hit. Us going in to register is negligent on the state those officers are at risk and at risk contaminating the whole jail. Officers duty is to put their selves in harms way to save lives but every kid is at home. Probably like 95 percent of us aren’t a threat. There’s other ways todo this registry. And contaminating mass people behind bars is negligence if you ask me there’s gonna be attorneys sitting at home thinking how to wipe insurance companies on this you watch.
I don’t foresee this ever happening in Florida unless it becomes a massive epidemic so brutal, that they literally become fearful of us possibly infecting them.
A huge win for the state of Michigan’s registered citizens. My brother is still forced to live on the street in Fort Lauderdale even though it is breaking local curfew laws. He has a place to shelter in place but his PO said “absolutely not” !
*I would really like to become involved in this committee as I have plenty of information to offer. I have seen, first hand, how the broken justice system and a corrupt judge essentially ruined my brother’s life.
In contrast to MI rational thinking, governors in Florida, Georgia, South Carolina and Missouri were late to the party in ‘stay at home’ orders. These orders were issued for today or 3 days ago while most other states made orders one or two weeks earlier. The remaining states without ‘stay at home’ orders such as the Dakota’s do not have major cities. I’m not sure why Arkansas does not have a ‘stay at home’ order. Instead of a ‘stay at home’ order, Governor Ava Hutchinson issued a decree that March 29th be a “special day of prayer”. I hope that is all that is needed, but it seems to be a case of Governor Hutchinson practicing “faith without works”.
Yeah the churches around here are gonna be sued if they are wrong. I’m thinking they are more worried about the light bill than holding service on line.
Rational thinking? Ha! Just another case of Michigan being hit with a Federal court ruling that the state will then ignore just like the last couple.
Michigan hasn’t been registering people.
Since when? I was commenting on the fact that they were handed a decision from the sixth circuit a number of years ago, which the Supreme Court refused to rehear, and yet we’re still talking about how they have refused to comply with that decision which has required further legal action. Did I miss a new post?
Required further legal action was taken. The state lost, registrants won.
So the state lost and the registrants one… Again. Did the state decide they were going to comply this time or basically ignore the court like they did in the previous instances?
The state is no longer enforcing the registry.
Loosing dollars because we lack common sense…I live in a state that is shelter in place. Today was my day to register so I break the law while risking My health and my life to give the same information I gave 3 months ago. Because of Covid my state has gone paperless with registration forms “because we might pass the virus on to the the clerk.” Instead I waited 4 hours in a room with other men and women waiting for the one person on duty to register us. As the great philosopher Forrest Gump said, “stupid is as stupid does”.
Yeah you won’t catch an attorney, judge, state in that room Laws would change over night cops are low on the hog and low income peasants in most eyes. The little 35-50k salary not worth it. Find something else my advise. I feel for them.
everyone needs to continue to e-mail Governor Desantis to try and get that here also
Good evening.
I am in Mi, and currently on the public registry even though I’m only a tier 1. I was forced to register publicly by the federal halfway house I was released to.
I have been following this case since you first reported it. I would never have heard of it if it wasn’t for you.
Thank you all so much for doing this. It really is most likely going to be a life saver to me in the end.
Reading today’s update on the ongoing case brought a question to mind. I am in need of some clarity if anyone has some idea. The wording in the brief mentions anyone committing an offense before 2011.
My offense was committed in 2009, I was raided in 2010, charged a year later in 2011 and sentenced, and started serving my sentence in august of 2012. It was at this time that I was listed on the registry here in Mi.
Is anyone aware of how my timeline falls into what the brief is considering before 2011?
This could have great consequence for my life.
Any advise or thoughts or opinions are welcome.
The date of your CHARGE is what matters. Conviction date means nothing in the greater scheme of things.
Neither date of charge nor of conviction matters here. Date of crime. In this case, 2009.
A rare voice of reason…clearly this would not ever happen in Florida.
Common sense and simple human decency are missing from the “leaders” of the state of Florida.
Sadly in the state of Florida registered citizen’s lives are deemed not as valuable as non-registered citizen’s lives.
This has been proven time and time again and even in this once in a lifetime pandemic it is proven yet again!
If it would not ever happen in Florida, are we wasting our time suing them?
What gripes me about these negative ideas about those convicted of sexual offenses is that there was a time in the lives of ALL of us when we had no offenses at all. The LE, politicians and local governors (and mayors) and even citizens speak about us as if we came out of our mothers’ wombs with a criminal record.
They seem to dismiss that sex offenses are happening daily by people with NO prior criminal record. This means that more and more of their TAX PAYING & VOTING CITIZENS are going to become registered citizens who are disposable. Good. Then along with us being disposed of, they’ll also dispose of the tax money they WOULD HAVE GOTTEN from those of us who work or own businesses. And the more people who keep getting sex convictions, the more money they’ll lose. And the more votes they’ll lose on either side of politics because they won’t allow us to vote. So if any democrat or republican needs to wonder how they missed a win by a hair, they can refer to their own stupidity in how they treat certain people with certain offenses who would like to get on with every day life after they’ve served their punishments.