Tag: Michigan Legislation
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New Senate Bill Would Deny Sex Offenders Their Retirements!
Sex offenders don’t have a lot of rights. Once you’ve been convicted of a ‘sexual offense’ – even if the crime itself isn’t violent or even sexual in nature – you’re future is irrevocably changed. Your status as a sex offender is public knowledge. Your home address is available for everyone to see on the…
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Not Following SORA Rules Will Get You Into LOTS of Trouble! (Pr. 1)
Michigan’s Sex Offender Registration Act (SORA) outlines very specific requirements for convicted sex offenders, which includes both people convicted in Michigan, or currently living in Michigan. For example, the law requires that all sex offenders in Michigan register their real address with law enforcement after conviction, but prior to sentencing. An offender has to register…
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New Bill To Outlaw Undercover Officers Having Sex With Prostitutes
Under the Michigan law as it is written today, there is a loophole in the criminal statute governing prostitution. It allows undercover police officers to have sex with prostitutes as part of their investigations. House Representative Gary Glenn has introduced a bill he hopes will close that loophole and in doing so, protect trafficking…
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Indecent Exposure – What You Need To Know
The term ‘indecent exposure’ tends to conjure the image of some drunk guy, urinating in a parking lot after staggering around in search of a bathroom. Or perhaps you think about a furtive man in a public park, wearing nothing but a trench coat that he whips open as soon as some young girl…
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Michigan Sex Offender Rules May Not Be Retroactive
The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that Michigan’s sex offender registry law cannot be retroactively applied because the new revisions stiffen the penalties for convicted offenders to the point that they could be considered unconstitutional. This ruling will change how the law is applied to thousands of convicted sex offenders in…
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Michigan’s New ‘Revenge Porn’ Law
If you have been following our previous posts, you will know that there was a bill in the works for quite a while that addressed the issue of “revenge porn.” Well after months of consideration, having passed both the Michigan House and the Senate, Lt. Gov. Brian Calley signed SB 924 and 925 into…