Recent NARSOL Articles
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In this opinion piece for TCR’s Viewpoint series, Sandy Rozek argues that media outlets should be careful about the words they use when discussing pedophilia, child sex abuse and those on the sex offender registry:
Recent Registration Articles
- NARSOL Summary of New Federal SORNA Regulations
- The Effectiveness of Sex Offender Registration and Notification: A meta-analysis of 25 years of findings
- Sex Offender Registry Laws Don’t Work. Here’s What Might
American Law Institute (ALI) Revised Model Penal Code Articles – NARSOL
- Prestigious American Law Institute recommends sweeping changes to registry, including no public dissemination (by Dr. Ira Ellman, author of a recent paper “When Animus Matters and Sex Offense Underreporting Does Not: The Sex Offender Registry Regime”)
- Nation’s top cops curry favor with voters over safe policies for children
- Support for the adoption of the ALI’s revisions to its Model Penal Code
Note: OHRSOL members have signed a letter supporting the ALI revised Model Penal Code recommendations. The ALI votes on these recommendations March 2, 2022.
Other National News, Articles, Studies, and Rulings
- Sex-Offender Laws Sent a Man to Prison Over a Prayer Livestream
Registries try to prevent sex offenders from using technology. These laws are confusing, unfair, and ineffective.
- “Sex offender registration can lead to social disgrace and humiliation, loss of relationships, jobs, and housing, and both verbal and physical assaults.”
Court Help section of New York State Court System website
- “The city declares plaintiffs [the registrants challenging the law] nuisances for no discernible activity but drawing breath. What the City has done here is effectively to declare an entire class of persons to be a public nuisance, by simple virtue of their physical existence.”
Vermont Superior Court Judge Samuel Hoar, Jr. in 2017 in ruling overturning an ordinance (Doe v. Rutland)
- Richard Matsch, Sr. District Judge of US District Court of Colorado found the Colorado sex offense registration law unconstitutional because it violated the 14 Amendment substantively and procedurally and violated the 8th Amendment prohibition on cruel and usual punishment. Although overruled several years later, Judge Matsch’s ruling shines light on the awfulness of registries: Millard v. Rankin