Indiana registrant fights to attend son’s school activities
Sex Offender Registry News
An Indiana man convicted of child solicitation in 2010 is taking his case to the Indiana Supreme Court. He is challenging a law passed in 2015 that makes it a felony for him to enter school property. For the first 5 years he was granted permission to enter school property to attend his son’s school activities, but in 2015, with the passage of Indiana Code section 35-42-4-14, that stopped.
Notably, that same law, which also prohibited sex offenders from attending a church that included a school was challenged and overturned recently.
The plaintiff claims the ban constitutes retroactive punishment because the restriction didn’t exist at the time of his offense.
Don’t see how he could lose. The shame is that the case will still be sitting on the Indiana Supreme Court docket and won’t be resolved until after his son finishes school.
Good luck to those who are defending the civil rights of a registrant as well as his child! The National Education Association (NEA) has stated clearly and often that a child who has the support of his parents has a much better chance to succeed in his/her every educational endeavor. The NEA has also stated that parental support is good for schools, too. We are fighting for the rights of registrant parents in California and have made limited progress so far. We will continue the fight until all registrant parents are able to fully participate in their children’s school activities.
Here is an ironic thing In the personal property tax assessment registrants are mandated to pay a “school tax” as part of that assessment but cannot enter the building……
I will say a prayer that he will win. My son has been denied the right to speak to his son, although his son’s mother wants them to communicate. The offense was not with his son.
The SO’s across the United States need to have their rights restored, unless they are proven to be a danger to children.
I recently read SCOTUS may revisit some of their past decisions regarding different cases that they have already ruled on why can’t we get case that found the registry not to be punishment revisited The decision was based on insufficient information incomplete information and out right lies and after all these years anyone with half a brain could see this is cruel and unusual punishment
Where did you read this? To our knowledge, the SCOTUS denied Cert on the two recent on-point cases that came before it to address this issue.
USA Today dated 2/9/18
Titled SCOTUS on the verge of reversing some old decisions. My point being if they can do that for any previous decisions why not ours too.