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Category: Law and Courts

civil rights challenges, lawsuit updates, and court rulings

Law and Courts

NC Supreme Court affirms limitation of lifetime GPS monitoring for registrants

August 16, 2019July 21, 2023NARSOLCourt Decision, Good News

By Will Doran. . . Sex offenders have rights, too, and in some cases the state has been violating those rights, the NC Supreme Court ruled on Friday. The ruling concerns people who have been ordered to submit to satellite-based monitoring for
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Law and Courts

NARSOL’s ex post facto case clears hurdle, proceeds to discovery

August 6, 2019Robin Vander WallNARSOL Original1 Comment

By Robin . . . On January 23, 2017, the National Association for Rational Sexual Offense Laws (NARSOL) and its affiliate in North Carolina (NCRSOL), along with two John Doe plaintiffs, filed an 88-page complaint in the U.S. Federal Court for the Middle
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Law and Courts

NARSOL, NC suit given okay to move forward

August 1, 2019Sandy Rozek

By Sandy . . . On July 31, a district court in North Carolina ruled that a suit brought against the state, a suit challenging the constitutionality of certain aspects of North Carolina’s sexual offense registry, may proceed. In denying the state’s
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The High Court has spoken: Congress did not violate non-delegation clause

June 20, 2019July 21, 2023Sandy RozekCourt Decision, NARSOL Original

By Michael McKay . . . On Thursday, June 20, 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court rendered a 5-3 decision on Gundy v. United States, a ruling that says the U.S. attorney general’s application of the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act’s (SORNA) registration
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The registry continues to crack and crumble: a due process victory

June 15, 2019July 21, 2023NARSOLCourt Decision, Good News

By Morgan G. Stalter . . . Alaska’s Supreme Court on Friday ruled that the state’s sex offender registry violated the due process rights of those convicted of sex crimes in other states, deeming it “too broad and arbitrary when it includes
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Law and Courts

Forced self-incrimination

May 15, 2019NARSOLNARSOL Original

By Larry . . . Maybe authorities will finally accept that the Fifth Amendment of the United States Constitution really protects individuals from compelled self-incrimination. At least it does in the state of Indiana according to the United States Court of Appeals
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Law and Courts

Rhode Island residency restrictions update

May 14, 2019NARSOL

By Larry . . . In 2015 Rhode Island extended residency restrictions from 300 to 1000 feet for level 3 offenders and retroactively applied the increased restriction to those already living within the expanded buffer zone. In response, the ACLU of Rhode
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Law and Courts

7th Circuit: Indiana SO program violates constitutional protection

April 27, 2019July 21, 2023NARSOLCourt Decision, Good News

By Marilyn Odendahl . . . Finding the disclosures provide information that any law enforcement agent “would love to have,” the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled Indiana’s requirement that sex offender inmates give detailed accounts of their past actions violates the
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Law and Courts

Federal Judge: Continuing incarceration beyond the sentence in Illinois is unconstitutional; NARSOL’s IL affiliate quoted

April 2, 2019July 21, 2023NARSOLCourt Decision, Good News

By Max Green . . . A federal judge in Chicago has found the Illinois Department of Corrections is violating the constitutional rights of prisoners convicted of certain sex crimes by making the restrictions on where they can live so stringent that
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Law and Courts

MA Supreme Judicial Court rules no on mandatory, blanket GPS monitoring

March 26, 2019July 21, 2023NARSOLCourt Decision, Good News

By John R. Ellement . . . Convicted sex offenders retain a constitutional right to privacy, and those rights are being violated by a state law mandating that everyone convicted of some sex crimes wear a GPS monitoring bracelet as part of
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