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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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If it wins it will be persuasive precedent, but not binding precedent.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