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Article • March 15, 2025 • from CLN April, 2025
Nebraska Supreme Court Announces ‘Working Days’ for Purposes of ‘Temporary Domicile’ SORA Reporting Requirement Means Weekdays, Excluding Legal Holidays, and Reverses Conviction for Failure to Register by Sagi Schwartzberg by Sagi Schwartzberg The Supreme Court of Nebraska interpreted the definition of “working days” in Neb. Rev. Stat. § 29-4001.01(6) of the …
Article • October 1, 2024 • from CLN October, 2024
Sixth Circuit Strikes Retroactive Application of Parts of Tennessee’s Sweeping Sex Offender Registration, Verification, and Tracking Law by Sam Rutherford by Sam Rutherford The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit overturned a ruling by the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee, enjoining enforcement of Tennessee’s …
Article • August 1, 2024 • from CLN August, 2024
Minnesota Sex Offender Program: The Indefinite Detention of the Reviled by Casey Bastian by Casey J. Bastian Implementing legal mechanisms to prevent “future crime” is a common theme of science fiction involving dark, dystopian future societies. But it is happening here in America today. Twenty states allow the indefinite detention …
Article • May 15, 2024 • from CLN May, 2024
New York Court of Appeals: SORA Designation Violates Defendant’s Due Process Rights Where Crime Involved No Sexual Contact or Motivation and Defendant Was Not a Sex Offender and Posed No Risk of Sexual Threat by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney The Court of Appeals of New York held that application …
Eighth Circuit Announces ‘Categorical Approach’ Applies to SORNA Tier Analysis by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney In a case of first impression, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit announced that the categorical approach applies to the tier analysis of the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (“SORNA”), …
People Convicted of Sex Crimes Remain Incarcerated 25 Years After Completing Their Prison Sentences by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney With the recent overturning of Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973), news pundits and left-leaning politicians decry the “radical” justices on the U.S. Supreme Court as if the High …
Article • November 13, 2022
Texas Requires Convict to Register as Sex Offender After Serving His Time for Car Theft, No Sex Crime Committed. by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott On September 16, 2022, attorneys from the Civil Rights Clinic of the Georgetown University Law Center filed a complaint for declaratory and injunctive …
Article • February 20, 2022
Why Does Florida Maintain a Sex-Offender Registry That’s Only 38.5% Accurate? by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott  Just when you think you had heard it all regarding Florida’s propensity to questionable money making, yet another case comes along that cloaks itself in moral respectability but has an element …
Article • January 15, 2022 • from CLN February, 2022
A Closer Look at Sex Offender Registries by Casey Bastian After 25 Years, These Regulatory Regimes Are Proven to Be Misguided, Dysfunctional, and Excessively Punitive. It’s Time to Replace Fear With Function. by Casey J. Bastian The term “sex offender registry” (“SOR”) is known to nearly every person in America. It …
Article • November 15, 2021 • from CLN December, 2021
Colorado Supreme Court Announces Mandatory Lifetime Sex Offender Registration Unconstitutional for Juveniles With Multiple Adjudications by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell The Supreme Court of Colorado held that mandatory lifetime sex offender registration for multiple sex offenses committed as a juvenile constitutes cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the …
Publication • September 21, 2021
The Effectiveness of Sex Offender Registration and Notification, Sept. 2021 Journal of Experimental Criminology https://doi.org/10.1007/s11292-021-09480-z The effectiveness of Sex Offender Registration and Notification: A meta-analysis of 25 years of findings Kristen M. Zgoba 1 & Meghan M. Mitchell 2 Accepted: 1 July 2021/Published online: 21 September 2021 # The Author(s), …
South Carolina Supreme Court: Lifetime SORA Registration Requirement Unconstitutional Absent Opportunity for Judicial Review of Risk of Re-offending by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso In an opinion filed June 9, 2021, the Supreme Court of South Carolina upheld a lower court ruling allowing a lower-risk sex offender to be …
Article • June 15, 2021 • from CLN July, 2021
Iowa Supreme Court: Successful Adjustment to Sex Offender Registry Requirements Not a Reason to Deny Modification by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The Supreme Court of Iowa ruled that a district court erred in its analysis of a petition to modify sex offender registry requirements. According to the Court, …
Article • June 15, 2021 • from CLN July, 2021
Cancel Culture Nothing New to Those on Sex Offense Registries by Sandy Rozek by Sandy Rozek For those not tuned in to current trends or social media, cancel culture is most likely new, even unheard of, although according to Merriam-Webster, its first known usage was in 2016. The basic definition …
Publication • June 4, 2021
ALI Model Penal Code: Sexual Assault and Related Offenses June 4, 2021 Re: ALI Model Penal Code: Sexual Assault and Related Offenses, Tentative Draft No. 5, May 4, 2021 Dear American Law Institute Member: The undersigned are attorneys, academics, and other stakeholders writing to express our grave concerns with the …
Article • March 26, 2021
Developmentally Challenged Man on Registry to Get New Hearing by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney The Illinois Prison Review Board has agreed to review Adam Nesteikis’ case. Adam, 34, needs more attention than most men his age. He must be reminded to brush his teeth and to shave. He was …
Article • March 15, 2021 • from CLN April, 2021
Seventh Circuit: Indiana’s Sex Offender Registration Act’s ‘Other Jurisdiction Requirement’ Unconstitutional Violation of Right to Travel by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit upheld U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana’s opinion that found a provision of Indiana’s Sex Offender …
Article • February 15, 2021 • from CLN March, 2021
Ninth Circuit Reverses Dismissal of Suit Challenging Idaho’s Sex Offender Registration Law by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reversed the U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho’s dismissal of a lawsuit challenging Idaho’s Sexual Offender Registration Notification and Community Right-to-Know …
Sex Panic: The War on Sex Offenders as Public Enemy Number One by Michael Fortino, Ph.D by Michael Fortino, Ph.D. Fueled by a “moral panic” that evolved through the 1990s and into the mid-2000s, the war on “sex offenders” paralleled the war on drugs and was slated to eventually replace …
Louisiana Supreme Court: Statute Compelling Registered Sex Offenders to Carry ID Emblazoned with ‘SEX OFFENDER’ Unconstitutional by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney The Supreme Court of Louisiana affirmed a district court’s holding that declared unconstitutional a state statute compelling registered sex offenders to carry identification emblazoned with the words “SEX …
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