Regrettably, an article was shared with us earlier today that mistakenly reported a decision out of the Missouri Supreme Court concerning the retro activity of their registry. As it turns out, the news came from what appeared to be a reputable source (https://news.stlpublicradio.org/post/court-rules-sex-offender-law-not-retroactive#stream/0) but we have not since been able to verify it and further believe it might be aged news, as the Court already ruled it non-retroactive.
We sincerely apologize for the retraction and will update as soon as we clarify.
If it’s too good to be true then it probably isn’t.
I have given up on any progress in this area. The constitution is worthless to these evil humans who think that they are better than everyone else.
Clearly nothing is going to change and I don’t care about steps forward. There are too many backward…we are not making progress we are losing ground all the time and it’s only getting worse.
But here is the original article and they did in fact rule that the registry could not be retroactive for those convicted before the registry went into effect in Missouri and still think that can be used as case law comparison here
https://www.kbia.org/post/court-rules-sex-offender-law-not-retroactive
“The court did rule, however, that anyone convicted before the law took effect in January 1995 does not have to register. “
Correct – but the ruling was a long time ago.
Yeah it was weird the article said it was posted 4 hours ago ( when I looked yesterday ) but the article was dated 2013. I found it on the University of Missouri’s Public radio website and wonder what prompted them to re-post it.
They migrated to a new content system and everything old refreshed.
I never can understand why websites don’t always include the dateline of a post – especially trusted news sources!
I often find myself reading an article from a newspaper or technical website, only to get halfway down the page and read that “…President Obama fully agrees…”
And, It’s so easy to include a script that will date-stamp all content.
Another annoying problem I have found is that even when you search for something one year old or less, if the author has makes an insignificant correction or a reader has posted a new comment, the search engine will bring up that article again, no matter how old the original.
Accidents happen.
Thank you for being on top of it.