Twenty-five people listed on the state’s lifelong sex offender registry are suing to have their names removed, arguing that it is unconstitutionally cruel.
The Columbia Daily Tribune reports that the plaintiffs include a woman barred by her church from a marathon to fight hunger and a man who saw hatred spewed so often his daughter was forced to move and his wife took her own life. Some of their children joined the federal suit as plaintiffs, claiming the lifetime requirement of their parents has deprived them of their constitutional rights as well.
READ MORE: https://www.columbiatribune.com/news/20190723/federal-suit-challenges-sex-offender-registry
It used to be ” we the people ” now its “we the sheeple”
When Hitler started rounding up dissidents in Germany he started with the homosexuals. No one remembers this little tidbit. The Jews were one of the last to be rounded up and then some people started to holler but it was too late.
OH YEAH. Hitler also put FLUORIDE in the drinking water to subdue the populous so no one would holler too loud and made a GUN registry which he then used to take away everyone’s guns but his military who then used the guns to put bullets in the heads of homosexuals and Jews.
NOTHING TO SEE HERE FOLKS JUST GO RIGHT ON BACK TO SLEEP.
I am thankful that FAC members, and others in their situation, at least do not have to worry about suffering a fate similar to that of Hitler’s victims.
It’s true that public sex registries, and all that go with it, can be quite damaging, but at least not in THAT way.
But if the ones like Ron booked and shady grady have they’er way it will be . that’s what they are shooting for
I need to be added to this petition.the registration is making my life hell after serving 9 years 8 Months in Prison.
I tried to join. I called the law office representing the 25 plaintiffs, and they told me they are not taking on more clients at this time. The good news is we will all benefit in the 8th district if they win their case. I hope and pray this case will set a precedent for the future of the registry and maybe it could be the start of the end.
Here’s the thing. The people making these laws act as if they have no duty to your family. We are all someones son, someones brother, husband, father, uncle. pet owner, neighbor. Making the laws so tough people are homeless has to be purely punishment when so many smarter ideas of how to handle the rest of our lives are out there!
Not to be mean but do you think they give two flying forks about our families? If it was up to most law makers and even citizens not on the registry, they would not shed a tear for us if we were all sent to the gas chamber. Once it is their child, their parent, their brother or friend who is accused, arrested, then had all their rights , dignity and any hope for a future away, maybe they will see things differently.
Speaking of challenging SORs, I found this article on ACSOL’s website about a recent Florida court decision:
https://all4consolaws.org/2019/07/fl-court-rules-against-sex-offender-on-internet-use/
Web article is here:
https://wusfnews.wusf.usf.edu/post/court-rules-against-sex-offender-internet-use
This case highlights the fact that judges don’t want to make sweeping decisions, just a decision to affect the defendant. Sad.
Also from ACSOL, more sadness out of Georgia, who wants to be more like Florida, apparently:
https://all4consolaws.org/2019/07/janices-journal-georgia-law-punishes-registrants-breaks-up-families/
“Also from ACSOL, more sadness out of Georgia, who wants to be more like Florida, apparently”
Georgia is one upping Florida in that anyone with a s.o. history is barred from even working within 1000 feet of any of the usual places listed.
Madness? Indeed. I’d think that provision alone would warrant a winning law suit.
I read the article. What interests me is that it appears to include both people who are off probation as well as people still on supervision. If I am wrong about this, please, somebody let me know. If I am correct, then this has even bigger implications than first thought–meaning the establishment will fight harder.
Just wanted to answer why senator booke won’t ask her dad that question 1. She knows he’s a polly-tition (yes I know how I spelled it ) but polly means more then one she knows he’s 2 faced. Also the fact you can’t believe anything they say. But most of all if she asks him she is admitting he knows how its done and its a small step to saying he’s done it. Even tho we all know he did . To her he’s Mr integrity she don’t want to admit they’re family may be less then perfect and her dad is as corrupt as the rest
any body got link to the case on file? I would like to read it too
Found link to an ACLU Florida video on Arizona’s AZRSOL website:
http://azrsol.org/internal-exile-in-florida/
So if this case is won for the plaintiffs, what does it mean for all of us?
It will benefit the registrants in Missouri. If it’s appealed to the 8th circuit and the registrants win, it will benefit registrants in the 8th Circuit (Arkansas, Iowa, Missouri, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota), If it’s appealed to the SCOTUS and the registrants win, it will benefit us.
If it wins it will be persuasive precedent, but not binding precedent.
How can federal judges block so many things nationwide but can’t block sex registration suits nation wide?
Depends who the plaintiff and defendants are and what level the Federal court is.
This could be good or bad. If they win it could be used for all of us to challenge as well. If they lose, every judge we go before will site that case as why we should be denied.
I was under the impression that other federal courts had found the registry unconstitutional such as a case out of Colorado if I remember correctly. Why would this case out of Missouri be more persuasive than any other?
They may apply the reasoning used by the Colorado Federal district court, to the extent that it’s persuasive here, but Missouri is in a different Federal circuit than Colorado, and ideally these issues need to be well-argued in all circuits.
The Colorado decision is now at the appellate stage.
Hopefully this will be a watershed moment to put light on the devastation the registry causes to our families. It sickened me to read that a registrant’s wife had killed herself due to the harassment. Then this a$$h0le states, “… bring more accountability to sex offenders and provide more safeguards for victims,” Huffman said.
How much fu¢king “accountability” is enough? Every other class of felon does their time in prison/probation then left alone and even offered a second chance. But not registrants. We and are families are hounded to death forever. Nobody wants us to work or even to live.
According to many people on the news who I see interviewed when an offender moves into their neighborhood and they run to the news, they want life sentences, death penalty, excommunication, Public hanging, calling us out, burning down our houses, posting flyers all over the neighborhood, sending us to an island. The accusers from most cases are never heard from again but neighbors could care less if it was 30 years ago with questionable charges. All they care about is we are on the registry. They do not care about John the ax murderer who lives next door. Kyle the drug dealer, Barb the Prostitute who tries to talk their daughter into the trade because none of them have registries. Heck I see people on the news all the time with 50 + convictions who do a few years and are back on the streets and they live in peace until their next arrest. How do they get to go on with their lives but we get the scarlet letter for life. No more travel, being branded on drivers license, having a hard time finding housing. I had a good job for 11 years until someone came in and hung flyers around the lobby of me and when other workers complained, that was the end for me. What were the flyers you ask? Oh not my mug shot but a registry printout that anyone can print and use to cause us harm. I even had ( OF ALL PLACES ) a church tell me I could not longer attend services ( It was not like I was in charge of sunday school ) because some of the attendees were threatening to stop coming and supporting the funding if I did not leave. I did not want to hurt the church so I left and Jesus got hunt on the cross a 2nd time
Will FAC’s Ex Post Facto lawsuit in Florida be helping to argue that the registry is “unconstitutionally cruel”?
That is one of the arguments contained in the filing.
I feel there pain. I was 18. Im 46 now.. If I wasent as strong and relentless as I am I doubt I would have made it this far this successfully. I’ll never quit fighting to prove people wrong with this garbage. I hope they get the relief they seek in this case.
Not Steve ( I am not Steve either what a coincidence )
I can relate, I was in my 20’s and now mid 50’s. A lifetime of punishment beyond the sentence I was given which of itself was not fair. ( An appeals judge agreed and I got relief on paper but bu time I won my appeal I was done with sentence )
October 19, 2016.
My wife Michelle committed suicide after 5 or 6 years of trying to accept two things.
One, she lost our children to adoption.
Two, it caught up to her that it was not my fault I loved her and that she truly had issues.
Bi Polar, bilimia, PTSD brought on by raping events when her mother rented , for crack, her own daughter to drug dealers at age 7 1/2!
PLEASE TELL ME HOW TO JOIN THIS LAW SUIT.
you don’t need to be a named plaintiff to benefit from a win in this case.
Here is what I sent (via email) to the author of the article:
Hello:
Here is an eye opening article by Huffpost (formerly the Huffington Post).
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/sex-offender-laws-dont-make-children-safer-politicians-keep-passing-them-anyway_n_5d2c8571e4b02a5a5d5e96d1
The truth is that sex offenders have the lowest rates of re-offense by far!
The truth is that registries don’t work!
The truth is that proximity laws can only make the problems worse!
The truth is that law-abiding, tax-paying citizens of this country (who have paid their debt to society in full) are routinely having their constitutional rights violated as well as their international human rights being violated!!
That used to mean something! We citizens of the USA used to guard our freedoms jealously! Our whole nation is based on “liberty”.
But, I (as a registered citizen) cannot even use my public amenities, for which I pay taxes!
The last time that government blacklists were used this extensively was by the Nazis!
You, as a journalist, have a sacred obligation to disseminate the truth!
Thank You,
(my name)
Please publish case number. i follow each case in federal court which may affect rights.
I wished my chapter would do that here in AZ.