{"id":2922,"date":"2022-05-10T15:26:04","date_gmt":"2022-05-10T20:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/?p=2922"},"modified":"2022-05-11T10:07:23","modified_gmt":"2022-05-11T15:07:23","slug":"aclu-wins-settlement-removing-those-with-buggery-convictions-from-south-carolina-sex-offense-registry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/2022\/05\/10\/aclu-wins-settlement-removing-those-with-buggery-convictions-from-south-carolina-sex-offense-registry\/","title":{"rendered":"South Carolina agrees to settlement removing those with &#8220;buggery&#8221; convictions from state sex offense registry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On April 22, 2022, in <em>Doe v. Wilson<\/em>, No. 21-04108, the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina entered an order adopting a joint stipulation under which the Attorney General of South Carolina agreed to remove from the South Carolina Sex Offender Registry all individuals currently registered solely for a conviction for &#8220;Buggery,&#8221; S.C. Code \u00a7 16-15-120, stemming from sodomy between consenting adults, to conform with <em>Lawrence v. Texas<\/em>, 539 U.S. 588 (2003).<\/p>\n<p><em>See<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/61\/2022\/05\/Doe-v.-Wilson-Stipulation.pdf\">District Court Order Granting Joint Stipulation and Request for Entry of Order<\/a><\/p>\n<p>ABC Columbia &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abccolumbia.com\/2022\/04\/22\/aclu-wins-settlement-to-remove-some-from-sex-offender-registry\/\">ACLU wins settlement to remove some from Sex Offender Registry<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Law Office of Matthew Strugar &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.matthewstrugar.com\/new-blog\/2022\/4\/22\/-big-victory-south-carolina-agrees-to-stop-requiring-people-with-buggery-convictions-to-register-as-sex-offenders\">Big Victory! South Carolina Agrees To Stop Requiring People With &#8220;Buggery&#8221; Convictions To Register As Sex Offenders<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On April 22, 2022, in Doe v. Wilson, No. 21-04108, the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina entered an order adopting a joint stipulation under which the Attorney General of South Carolina agreed to remove from the South Carolina Sex Offender Registry all individuals currently registered solely for a conviction for &#8220;Buggery,&#8221; S.C. Code \u00a7 16-15-120, stemming from sodomy between consenting adults, to conform with Lawrence v. Texas, 539 U.S. 588 (2003).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/2022\/05\/10\/aclu-wins-settlement-removing-those-with-buggery-convictions-from-south-carolina-sex-offense-registry\/\" class=\"more-link\">South Carolina agrees to settlement removing those with &#8220;buggery&#8221; convictions from state sex offense registry<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1303,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2922","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-notes","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1303"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}