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Hundreds Removed from Georgia’s Sex Offender Registry by A May 2010 revision to Georgia’s sex offender law, one of the toughest in the nation, has resulted in more than 440 people being removed from the state’s sex offender registry as of October 2011. Georgia has 20,676 registered sex offenders. The …
U.S. Supreme Court Holds AG Rules Required Before SORNA Sex Offender Law is Applied Retroactively by Derek Gilna On January 23, 2012 the U.S. Supreme Court, in a 7-2 decision written by Justice Stephen Breyer, reversed the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, which had held that the federal Sex Offender …
Tenth Circuit Holds Sex Offenders Who Leave U.S. Must Still Register by Derek Gilna The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals held on December 23, 2011 that a Utah sex offender must register in his home state even if he intends to permanently leave the U.S. to live in another country. …
Texas Parole Board Removes Onerous Sex Offender Conditions from 176 Parolees by In November 2011, the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles removed the sex offender designations from 176 parolees who were subject to stringent parole restrictions known as Condition “X,” but had never been convicted of a sex offense. …
Michigan Sex Offender’s Suicide Results in Changes to Sex Offender Registry Law by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke When 17-year-old Justin Fawcett admitted to having consensual sex with a 14-year-old student at the same high school he attended in West Bloomfield, Michigan, he probably never thought that that youthful dalliance …
Article • June 15, 2012 • from PLN June, 2012
Oregon Increases Sex Offender Registration Requirements by The State of Oregon posts online, in a publicly-accessible registry, information related to around 700 “predatory” or sexually violent sex offenders. A bill introduced in the state legislature in 2011 would have increased the number of sex offenders listed online to more than …
Report Deconstructs Urban Legend of 100,000 Missing Sex Offenders by David Reutter by David M. Reutter “Like dormitory gossip or the childhood game Whisper-Down-the-Lane,” the assertion that “over 100,000 sex offenders [are] ‘missing’ from registries across the country has galvanized the urban legend that over years of telling, took on …
6th Circuit Upholds SORNA Conviction Despite Incomplete State "Implementation" by Derek Gilna 6th Circuit Upholds SORNA Conviction Despite Incomplete State "Implementation" By Derek Gilna David Wayne Felts' conviction for failure to register under the Sex Offender Registration Notification Act (SORNA) was upheld by the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, which …
Murderer Registry Becomes Law in Illinois by Joe Watson For ex-prisoners hoping for a fresh start upon their release, the slope is becoming increasingly slippery. A bill signed by Illinois Governor Pat Quinn on July 21, 2011 has established the state’s first registry for convicted murderers. Also known as “Andrea’s …
Tenth Circuit Affirms Sentence in Excess of Federal Advisory Guidelines for Sex Offender Who Violated Terms of Supervised Release by In an unpublished opinion, the Tenth Circuit affirmed the district court's imposition of an 18-month prison term for a Utah man, Brian Olinger, who pled guilty to three violations of …
Missouri Federal Court Enjoins Denial of Housing Assistance to Sex Offender by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On March 14, 2011, a federal court in Missouri temporarily enjoined the Housing Authority of St. Louis County (HASLC) from denying housing assistance to a seriously ill man who had been convicted of …
HUD Regulations Don't Justify Terminating Lifetime Sex Offender Registrant from Federally-Appointed Housing Program by Richard Miller was convicted of a Washington State sex offense in 1996. In 2002, he applied for and was accepted into a Section 8 Housing Voucher Program in Massachusetts. In 2005, he moved to Maine and …
Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Rules Against Parole Board on Imposition of Sex Offender Restrictions on Non-Sex Offenders by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals held that the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles was required to provide due process in the form of a …
Homeless New Mexico Sex Offender Arrested for Moving Out of Dumpster by Charles Mader, a registered sex offender, was homeless when he was released from jail, so he listed a dumpster at an intersection in Albuquerque, New Mexico as his residence. That was fine with authorities. However, after Mader moved …
Some States Resist Implementing Adam Walsh Act Requirements by Under the federal Adam Walsh Act, also known as the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA), states were required to implement standardized and stringent registration requirements for sex offenders by July 27, 2011 – following two extensions from the original …
Article • December 15, 2011 • from PLN December, 2011
Ohio Adam Walsh Act Violates Separation of Powers Doctrine by Provisions of Ohio’s Adam Walsh Act (AWA) that require the reclassification of sex offenders by the Ohio Attorney General violate the separation of powers doctrine, the Ohio Supreme Court decided on June 3, 2010. In 2006, Congress passed the federal …
Article • November 15, 2011
Sex Offender Designation Process Upheld by Louisiana Supreme Court by On July 1, 2011, the Supreme Court of Louisiana upheld the constitutionality of the Sex Offender Assessment Panel (SOAP) process. The Louisiana legislature enacted the SOAP in order to identify which sex offenders should be classified as either sexually violent …
Tennessee GPS Monitoring of Sex Offenders Upheld by The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has held that Tennessee’s Sex Offender Registration and Monitoring acts do not violate the ex post facto prohibition of the U.S. Constitution. In doing so, the appellate court determined that tracking via a global positioning system …
Ohio Legislature Cannot Increase Sex Offender Registration Requirements Imposed By Court by Michael Brodheim By Michael Brodheim A divided Ohio Court of Appeals has held that changes to the state's Sex Offender Registration and Notification (SORN) Act, increasing its registration and notification requirements, violate the constitutional separation of powers doctrine …
New York Sex Offenders’ Settlement Agreement Superseded By New Registration Law by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg The Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals dealt a blow to New York state sex offenders when it ruled that in spite of an earlier suit and settlement agreement constraining sex offender …
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