Aclu calls on legislature to fix registry law to end constitutional violations Goldsmith struck down significant portions of the law in a decision released late last week The court’s decision in the. Protecting the constitutional rights of everyone, even those convicted of sex offenses, is of the upmost importance for protecting our freedom. Detroit (ap) — a judge has struck down a key part of michigan’s sex offender registry requirement that thousands of people stay on the list for life, saying it is unconstitutional About 17,000 people who were expecting to be on the registry for 25 years suddenly faced a lifetime sanction after lawmakers amended the law in 2011.
By dale chappell for nearly a decade, the aclu has fought michigan’s sex offender registration act (“sora”), challenging provisions it claims violate constitutional rights Despite repeated rulings declaring earlier versions unconstitutional, michigan enacted a revised sora in 2021 that retained many restrictive and retroactive measures In the meantime, however, congress approved sorna That 2006 law made a sex offender's failure to follow state registration requirements, already a crime under state law, a federal felony. In october 2024, federal district court judge mark a Goldsmith issued a ruling in does v
The decision could affect tens of thousands of people in michigan and would result in some people being removed from the sex offender registry
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