MO: Federal Suit Challenges Sex Offender Registry
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
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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.