[Huffington Post] — Sex Offender Registries Don’t Keep Kids Safe, But Politicians Keep Expanding Them Anyway
By Michael Hobbes | July 16th, 2019 The first time Damian Winters got evicted was in 2015. He was living with his wife and two sons in suburban Nashville when his probation officer called his landlord and informed him that Winters was a registered sex …
Posted: July 16, 2019[The Appeal] New Law Forces Dozens on Tennessee’s Sex Offender Registry From Their Homes
By Steven Yoder | June 28th, 2019 Last Sunday, Jason broke the news to his 7-year-old daughter: He’d be moving out. When a new Tennessee law goes into effect Monday, he will be barred from living with her. The law, Senate Bill 425, also forbids him fro …
Posted: June 29, 2019Detroit Free Press — Michigan lawmakers ordered to revise the Sex Offender Registry Act
May 24th, 2019 | By Aleanna Siacon A U.S. district court judge is giving Michigan lawmakers 90 days to change the state’s sex offender registry law, almost three years after it was first ruled unconstitutional by federal appeals court. U.S. District Ju …
Spring 2019 Symposium — Residency Restrictions: Wise or Unwise
On February 28th, the Journal of Public Law & Policy held a symposium at Mitchell Hamline discussing the wisdom of laws banishing people convicted of sex offenses from living in a wide swath of residential areas. Those heard at the event included a …
Posted: March 20, 2019Miami-Dade Sex Offenders ‘Forced to be Homeless’
The Crime Report | By Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg Since he was released from prison almost five years ago, John has never had a place he can call home. Suffering from Parkinson’s disease, he spends nights outside in remote areas of Miami-Dade County—slee …
Posted: February 20, 2019Michigan AG Dana Nessel Does the Unthinkable: Argues the Truth about SORA
By Guy Hamilton-Smith Michigan’s Attorney General has entered the cultural and legal conflagration of how we reckon with sexual violence in our society with a remarkable (and compelling) argument: Michigan’s sex offender registries are not effective at …
Posted: February 20, 2019[Detroit Free Press] Treatment of sex offenders depends on whether they’ve challenged rules
WASHINGTON – Eight months after the U.S. Supreme Court effectively upheld a decision saying parts of Michigan’s sex offender registry law — one of the toughest in the nation — were unconstitutional, thousands of former sex offenders who thought they’d …
Posted: June 8, 2018The Sex-Offender Panic is Destroying Lives
The Washington Post The Sex-Offender Panic is Destroying Lives September 19, 2017 By Radley Balko