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Tennessee:
https://www.newschannel5.com/plus/openline/issues-with-the-sex-offender-registry
Guy talks about the punitive nature of the Tennessee registry.
Michigan Update to the Class
(November 16, 2023)
We hope this message finds you well. We appreciate your ongoing patience and commitment to this case. Without your collective effort, we wouldn’t have reached the pivotal juncture we’re at today.
We are pleased to share that on October 2, 2023, we filed a Motion for Summary Judgment. This is a formal request to the Court to rule that we win on our claims based on the law and the significant evidence we have collected to date. The aim is to prompt the Court to decide on the foundational aspects of our claims.
In addition to the Motion for Summary Judgment, we also filed a comprehensive Statement of Facts that included not only a plethora of expert research on why registries are harmful and counterproductive, but also the compelling stories that you all shared with us about your experience being on the Michigan registry.
In our motion, we are first asking the Court for declaratory judgments on each count. If the Court grants us a declaratory judgment, it would rule that SORA is unconstitutional in specific ways. This is critical, because it would provide a clear-cut judicial declaration on the legality of SORA, as well as providing a basis for orders about what the state can and cannot do.
We anticipate that the government will also be filing a Motion for Summary Judgment in late November. We expect that Court to complete briefing on the parties’ motions for summary judgment in mid-January of next year. We do not yet know if the Court will want an evidentiary hearing, or when the Court will rule on our motions.
Illinois
https://ipmnewsroom.org/state-supreme-court-weighs-constitutionality-of-lifetime-restrictions-on-child-sex-offenders/
Hopefully these ideas can spread.
Now this article that Eugene gave link too, should tell many that are on the sex registry that much of this registry violates not only equal justice,due process, plus it goes against principals set in the bible and the principals would be more condemning upon law enforcement.
Setting one up in all this is a grave injustice that mankind is inducing over another. Its like a presupposition of a situation induced by law enforcement.
All too many of our group have problems in Marion County, Florida. Well, Karma is a b$#&h.
Florida deputy followed girl to McDonald’s after traffic stop, sent ‘inappropriate’ texts: police
https://www.foxnews.com/us/florida-deputy-followed-girl-mcdonalds-after-traffic-stop-sent-inappropriate-texts-cops
Has anyone heard how the Ex Post Facto case, that was to be heard in Tallahassee yesterday, went? Is there a video link?
A Florida man wants right to reputation after his son account is hacked online. Maybe this idea could gain steam, a Pennsylvania man is using a reputation defense in his state as a means to challenge his conviction on the Pennsylvania registry.
https://www.clickorlando.com/getting-results/2023/11/13/ucf-student-says-name-tarnished-by-racial-slurs-posted-by-imposter-on-x/
Eugene, it seems he was targeted by someone out to portray him as a radical Democratic upset at Mainor for switching parties. So someone set him up to make people think that he posted racial slurs about her. The problem with Bugay’s case is that there are many Alex Bugay’s on Twitter. So the other person can always say they’re referring to another Bugay. And no one can ever pin down which one, because the other person can always deny it’s the one. Also, there’s already an anti-defamation law on the books that benefit private & not public citizens. It makes me wonder why Bugay’s lawyers didn’t go that route. They probably believe that Bugay has crossed that line to public citizen thru his activism on Twitter X makes in a public citizen. As far as sex offenders benefiting from this reputation law? That will be a very hard sale to the general public.