This post was written by people within NARSOL and was first published at NARSOL.org.
NARSOL recently released copies of two expert reports filed last week in Antrim v. Carr, 19-cv-396 (Eastern District of Wisconsin).
According to NARSOL, “The case challenges Wisconsin’s statutory scheme requiring that certain individuals convicted of sexual offenses be forced to wear a GPS monitoring device for life, even after they are off of any criminal supervision.”
You can read the NARSOL post here.
Lifetime GPS and lifetime on the SOR is very draconian. Forcing this upon people is cruel. After all, people can change and be productive citizens. Politicians have way to much power to change sentences.
When someones sentence is over, it should be over. It becomes never ending punishment when changes are made on a whim. The SOR is a vigilante hit list. It does NOT protect the public.
That’s just it, the politicians bipartisanly get to be crooks under the guise of helping society, it’s quite genius. On the plus side, they will rot in hell.
Wisconsin has to be very vigilant. Ex-attorney general, Brad Schimel, advocating lifetime registry for two convictions under one hearing (OAG-02-17), is now considering running for Wisconsin Supreme Court. The Wisconsin Supreme Court decided against Schimel’s opinion in decision 41-2023, but by that time, the Wisconsin Department of Corrections had already reached back and put over a thousand unsuspecting citizens on lifetime registry.
That is just flat wrong. Just like the lifetime registration for one-time offenders. Repeat offenders and predators need to be on lifetime registration.