OK Supreme Court rules residency restrictions can be retroactive
In a 5-3 decision this week, the Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled the Sex Offender Registration Act’s provision prohibiting sex offenders from living within 2,000 feet of a park applies retroactively to those who registered prior to the provision’s 2006 enactment.
I must wonder what the final decision would have been if all eight justices had a family member impacted by the registry.
I have no doubt that in the near future with the expansion of A.I. tools, the registries of all states will ensnare scores of “offenders” (who simply didn’t know any better) from the next generation and the generation after.
Keeping your kids safe from… silicon dolls that look like they might be underage, sexting, A.I. images of something that might appear to be a minor.
… and of course every new punishment they can dream of is retroactive, because after all the registry isn’t “punitive”.
The registry will never be abolished until everyone or their loved one is on it.
They worry and “express concern” about anything that appears phallic because that is grooming and exploitative and impressionable to children in their eyes. Anything SEX, is an easy target from them to attack because that is much easier than doing actual work to help society. They are absolute obsessed with genitals! That’s a really cute stance to have while they ban books, cut funding for lunches and kid’s brains continue fill up with micro plastics.
Once again, some see it for what it really is and the impacts while others live with their judicial heads in the ground oblivious to realities of the impacts laws have on others. If they had members on the registry impacted such as this, they’d be pissed short and simple while what they could to get the reality seen by those in the legal world.
So would that mean that people could be forced out of their homes? That seems “BEYOUND” constitutional. Are we living in the 4th dimension or something?
God save us all.
We in Missouri have retained a lobbying firm to represent our folks. It any state should hire one it is Florida.
Vicki
May “The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make His face shine upon you, and be gracious to you; the Lord lift up His countenance upon you, and give you peace”
Vicki Henry’s right about lobbying for action. Nothing wrong with good advocacy and lobbying not only Florida but all states. The registry is coveting many in much of this pretending issue under the guise of preventing by perverting with a sexual coy attachment to it.
I do not understand how everything on the registry is retroactive. My friend was charged in 1992, served time in prison, released early probation in 2004. In 2004 the Judge said no restrictions. He has so many restrictions on him, year after year. Why when a new law passes or there is a new ordinance it pertains to him. How can he move on with his life? It’s impossible. Already tried for release of getting off of registry. That was denied by the Judge. There is literally no HOPE. He was charged 32 years ago. And they say this is not punitive.
It can be retroactive, because the people punishing you say it is not punishment.
This is an important case to read and I hope the masses here do so. The article here gives a very nice overview of it and what the justices opined, which is important because it shows how their thinking was shaped.
Here is another website that breaks this case down even further which I hope the masses here read as well: Oklahoma Supreme Court Upholds SORA Residency Restrictions as Non-Punitive and Retroactively Applicable (https://www.casemine.com/commentary/us/oklahoma-supreme-court-upholds-sora-residency-restrictions-as-non-punitive-and-retroactively-applicable/view)
It breaks down how it is applicable retroactively as well as non-punitive. You need to know your opponent and their thinking into their moves. This info does just that, albeit post-case, but is still important to note for other cases on the same topic which will be wagered.