Adele Nicholas

Author: Adele Nicholas

Adele Nicholas is the executive director of Illinois Voices for Reform and a civil rights attorney based in Chicago. Along with Mark Weinberg, she has been litigating constitutional challenges to the harmful, permanent punishments that apply to persons who have been convicted of sex offenses, including housing banishment laws and registration schemes, since 2016.

Law and Courts

In Wisconsin: Important Seventh Circuit Decision on the Ex Post Facto Clause

By Adele Nicholas . . . We achieved a small but important victory in the Seventh Circuit this week. The Seventh Circuit found that a municipal ordinance enacted by the Village of Hartland, Wisconsin, that banned registrants from establishing a home in the
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