New Jersey district court opinion dismissing a constitutional challenge to New Jersey's sex offense registration scheme in the context of plaintiffs who had been adjudicated as juveniles.
B.K. v. Grewal (D.N.J. 2020)
Posted: September 23, 2020
Millard v. Rankin (10th Cir. 2020)
Posted: August 24, 2020
10th Circuit opinion reversing lower court finding that Colorado's sex offense registration scheme violated 8th and 14th Amendments.
People v. Legoo (Ill. 2020)
Posted: June 25, 2020
Illinois Supreme Court Opinion affirming a criminal conviction for entering a park as someone with a past sex offense conviction in order to retrieve their own child.
Doe v. Rausch (E.D. Tenn. 2020)
Posted: May 16, 2020
Federal trial court in the Eastern District of Tennessee finding that Tennessee's SORA could not be applied retroactively without implicating the Ex Post Facto clause.
Blanke v. Board of Pardons (Utah)
Posted: May 1, 2020
Utah Supreme Court opinion affirming that Appellant's due process rights were not violated when the parole board required him to complete a sex offender treatment program, where he was convicted of a non-sexual offense requiring registration and made statements in a presentence report indicating that sexual conduct was connected with the offense of conviction.
In re H.D. (N.J. 2020)
Posted: March 18, 2020
New Jersey Supreme Court opinion holding that legislature did intend for minor, non-sexual offenses committed subsequent to a conviction for a sexual offense to forever bar relief for those seeking to be able to deregister.
John Doe et al. v. Richard Snyder (E.D. Mich. 2021)
Posted: February 14, 2020
Federal District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan granting permanent injunction, prohibiting in total the enforcement of any of Michigan's sex offense registration scheme to anyone who had committed their offenses prior to 2011, as well as prohibiting the enforcement of numerous provisions to any persons required to register.
State v. Allen (Tenn. 2020)
Posted: January 30, 2020
Tennessee Supreme Court decision holding that trial court was without jurisdiction to modify order dismissing indictments for failure to register, and further commented on lack of apparent Due Process protections in Tennessee's statutory scheme.
Doe v. Dep’t of Public Safety (Alaska 2019)
Posted: June 17, 2019
Alaska Supreme Court opinion holding that requiring sex offense registration without providing individuals with an opportunity to rebut a presumption of dangerousness violated state constitutional Due Process protections regarding privacy.
In re J.B. (Pa. 2014)
Posted: October 27, 2017
Pennsylvania Supreme Court held that as applied to juveniles, SORN scheme was unconstitutional in that it deprived them of due process rights.