[8/23/22] NEW FREEDOM, Pa. – Today, Chester County Court Judge Allison Bell Royer ruled that Pennsylvania’s Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act is unconstitutional in Commonwealth v. George Torsilieri. “PARSOL and our affiliates across the country have long advocated against sex offender…
Category: Constitutionality
Missouri: Monitoring Data Trends After 2018 Justice Reinvestment Initiative Reforms
In 2017, Missouri sought technical assistance under the Justice Reinvestment Initiative (JRI) program to address various challenges in the state’s criminal justice system. The policies adopted by the state were reflected in House Bill 1355, which was signed into law…
25 Years After Court Ruling, Released Sex Offenders Endure ‘Shadow Prisons’
By Derek W. Logue | June 22, 2022 On June 23 1997, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Kansas v. Hendricks, upheld the practice of detaining people convicted of sexual offenses beyond prison sentences under the guise of treatment. The landmark 5-4 ruling also…
DOJ Says a Man Whose Record Was Expunged Still Must Register As a Sex Offender, Which Is Impossible
A federal lawsuit argues that the department’s regulations violate due process, the separation of powers, and the First Amendment. The DOJ Says a Man Whose Record Was Expunged Still Must Register As a Sex Offender, Which Is Impossible
HB1705 Establishes… a violent offender registry, which will include any person on probation or parole for first or second degree murder
HB 1705 specifies that the State Highway Patrol must maintain on its website a registry for violent offenders who are on probation or parole for the offense of first or second degree murder in Missouri or for an equivalent offense in…
Teamwork Makes the Dreamwork in DC in 2023
Teamwork Makes the Dreamwork 2023
Their Time Served, Sex Offenders Are Kept in Prison in ‘Cruel Catch-22’
Justice Sotomayor said she held out hope that “New York will choose to re-evaluate its policy in a manner that gives due regard to the constitutional liberty interests of people like Ortiz.”
Virginia bill would end civil commitment of sex offenders
One has to surmise the cost of warehousing human beings at a cost of approximately $175,000 per person per year as cited by others and a minuscule recidivist rate the cost for something they ‘might do’ is no object. The Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services said the recidivism rate for people released from the center is currently estimated at about 2%.
Constitutional Law and the Role of Scientific Evidence
Just published: A new article by legal scholar Melissa Hamilton spotlights the key role of *scientific evidence* in a ground-breaking 2016 federal appeals court decision known as Doe v. Snyder—and how that holding is already impacting other challenges to draconian…
Informant Use Has FBI on Defense in Child-Porn Case
FBI agents and prosecutors usually strut inside Santa Ana’s Ronald Reagan Federal Courthouse, knowing they’ve focused the wrath of the criminal-justice system on a particular criminal. But an unusual child-pornography-possession case has placed officials on the defensive for nearly 26…