(Source: MIRS.news, Published 09/09/2026) The Michigan Supreme Court unanimously ruled today that Michigan’s current sex offender registry law cannot be applied to people whose registration-triggering crimes occurred before July 1, 2011, finding that doing so amounts to unconstitutional punishment imposed after the
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By Sandy . . . What is going on at Pawleys Island Baptist Church and school in South Carolina? For anyone who follows the topics of interest to our community, it would have been impossible to miss the headlines and videos starting the
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NARSOL’s 18th conference hit the ground running Friday morning, June 26, and didn’t slow down for two and a half days. With powerball speakers such as Catherine Carpender and Miriam Auckerman, the deeply moving stories of Amber Vlangas and Shawn Barrera-Leaf, and
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Updated 4/23/2026; originally published 2/4/2025 at narsol.org as Sex offender residency restrictions: bad, bad public policy.” By Sandy . . . Residency restrictions for persons required to register as sexual offenders are often enacted for no reason other than neighboring towns
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By Sandy and John . . . Portez Smith arrived outside Jesse Grover’s duplex early on Sunday, November 17, 2024, yelling through the closed door, “Grover, you’re a f—ing pedophile,” and when Grover opened the door, Smith pulled out a gun and
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Portions of this are written based on conversations with several registrants. No one is identified, and any reference to them is stated in general terms. By Sandy and John D . . . The latest figure for persons registered as sex offenders
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By Sandy . . . In the many years that we have been tracking Halloween, this one fits the pattern of the past few years. There were the semi-frequent media and sheriff’s offices who were warning—and scaring—parents about people on sex offender
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NARSOL has completed its 2025 conference, its 17th consecutive one. It was a wonderful conference. So many thanks go to our conference committees; our attendees, both in-person and livestream; our speakers and workshop presenters; the hotel and its staff; our law enforcement
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By Ronald . . . Like every other inmate being released at Missouri’s Farmington Correctional Center, I received a voter registration card and instructions on how to restore voting rights as a felon. The instructions said, “The right to vote is automatically
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By Sandy . . . Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) Post 12226 was opened in the fall of 2023. There were roughly 5,000 such posts in the United States at that time, but this was the first—and so far only–one established inside
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