An emergency writ was filed with the Nevada Supreme Court late Thursday in a last-gasp effort to block a new sex offender registry law from taking effect Friday. Full Article
Update July 1, 11 am
NEVADA SUPREME COURT STOPS SEX OFFENDER LAW FROM BEING IMPLEMENTED
CARSON CITY — The Nevada Supreme Court Friday put the brakes on a law that would impose new registration requirements on sex offenders and subject thousands of them to community notification. Full Article
“Butler said annual sex offender verification procedures took about 3,300 hours of staff time to complete. The more frequent verifications required under the new law will add 8,600 staff hours for an annual total exceeding 11,000.
“We can’t do it with the staff we have today,” Butler said.”
I hope they go bankrupt!
This is serious injustice, and the legislators who enacted this should be ashamed of themselves!
What garbage!
My prayers go out to the families affected by this horrible and unconstitutional injustice.
I would think the issue is yet again “ripe” to challenge the Ex-Post Facto violation from Doe Vs Smith now that registering is nothing like it was back then.
It’s also “ripe” to challenge registration for anyone as being unconstitutional.
On the positive side, I hope the absurd nature of this issue raises more negative press for the registry.
Chris F
It is so “Ripe” it’s going rotten. If we don’t do something soon, it will dry up and just blow away. We can’t let that happen. Thank You for your prayers.
Frank
Presumably after their attempt to get the Ninth Circuit to rule on their side, they made petition to the Supreme Court. If not by bow, they have lost their chance on this one. If they did, then SCOTUS never took the case. Wish I knew which one it was. If SCOTUS said no, then we are screwed for at least another decade.
I guess my question is will the hearing on July 12, 2016 still have a chance of shutting this new law down?
This turn of events in Nevada ought to serve as a warning to us. I have always questioned the wisdom of pursuing a tiered system on two basis points. One: people who are now successful in dealing with the stigma of being an RSO might suddenly find themselves spotlighted as the worst-of-the-worst by being classified at the top tier. Of courses, the counter argument is that those convicted of lesser crimes will have some relief. But the issue is this: the tiered system will help some and it will hurt some. Alleged winners and definite losers.
Second: This Nevada decision should tell us that there is no security in a tiered system. Today you may be level one, and tomorrow you may become level three. In fact, one should assume that the politicians and courts will do everything in their power (to protect their power and positions) by creating changes in the law to subjugate those tier Ones who are obviously “dangerous” but “gaming the system”.
Some at CARSOL have repeatedly expressed their concerns that our energies should be concentrated on IML directly, rather than pursuing a tiered system. What do you think?
I feel for everyone that will be negatively affected by this unconstitutional law. Just remember,. Life is good,,,If you don’t weaken.
I just seen in the news a last chance to block publication of 5300 sex offenders names in Nevada has passed for now pending constitutional challenges
Just to address a couple comments made above.
The hearing scheduled for July 12th is for the state to respond to the challenges made in the original motion. At the injunction hearing on Thursday the state testified that they did not have adequate time to file a response. The judge gave them until July 8 to file, and scheduled a hearing for the 12th.
As to the comment on the tiered system. The issue is how the tiers are applied which is key. Nevada’s former law tiered individuals on a case by case basis. Thus, there was only a very small percentage classified as a Tier 3. The new law is modeled on Adam Walsh and uses strict offense based tiers which increases the number of Tier 3’s dramatically and allowed no means of appealing, or questioning the tier assigned.
The issue is not in a Tier Level structure as much as in how those tiers are assigned and applied. As they say, the devil is in the details.
Chris
Moments ago I received an email from Nevada State Senator Tick Segerblom who informed me of the last minute stay by the Nevada Supreme Court. So it is only temporary.
Mr. Segerblom also informed me that he plans to work on solutions in the legislative session next year which begins in February.
Frank
Re: The July 1 update. I had to read it three times just to be sure I was seeing what I actually thought I was seeing. Unbelievably amazing. I feel such relief for the plaintiffs and prayers go out to the lawyers as they continue to fight this fight.
NV Supreme Court: “we conclude that a temporary stay of enforcement of AB579 is warranted to maintain the status quo while this court considers the petition and supporting documents”
This is probably something that should have happened with the IML Injunction.
Is a temporary stay of enforcement 2 days? 2 months? Is there any way of knowing?
watch i guarantee you that a challenge to the necessity of this law or the arbitrary application and any evidence documenting collateral consequences and no challenge based on the right to reputation or what’s the justification for this law and I could go on and on is brought up. it’s sad but true and it’s going to provide more precedents for our opposition when are people going to wake up and bring forth the real issue…all these laws are unreasonable arbitrary oppressive official actions with absolutely no justification that stem from lies and deception.
I wish this was set up as a new news link as well as updating the previous. I missed it and found the new news on a google news search.
In regards to any tiered system…I still don’t see how a challenge of our rights to due process hasn’t succeeded anywhere yet. It’s clearly a lack of due process for a person to be put on a list where that list can be used to deny housing, jobs, travel, access to parks, etc when that person has not been specifically judged a current threat in a hearing where both sides are allowed to present evidence.
I am a Nevadian I was convicted in California. Going on 15 years ago. I am at this moment I am a Tear II with 55 points, meaning I am only 5 points above the threshold of being a Tear I. After hearing all about the AWA for almost a decade now I think it is going to be much ado about nothing. Even with “Records” getting another half million dollars there is no way they can process that many II’s & III’s my local sheriff’s department certainly can’t handle it. Needless to say I have mixed feeling about this.