Pennsylvania State Police have started the process for removing as many as 5,000 ex-offenders from the Megan’s Law registry under a state supreme court mandate and a new law.
Shaquana Green appeared at a Pennsylvania State Police barracks last month to update her information as a registered sex offender. It’s an annual chore she has done for the last five years, having landed on the Megan’s Law list after disappearing with her daughter for three hours in violation of a custody order.
As of this month, though, the name of the 26-year-old Northampton County resident no longer appears on the registry, under a state Supreme Court ruling and a new exemption for parents who had been charged with interfering with custody of children, but no sex crime.
“I get to have my life,” Green said last week. “This is more than a blessing.”
Last year, the state Supreme Court ruled retroactive application of the state’s version of the new, tougher Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act was unconstitutional. In response, state lawmakers passed House Bill 631, a stop-gap measure to keep up to 12,000 individuals on the registry, but that included an exemption for legal guardians charged with interference with custody of children. Gov. Tom Wolf signed the bill into law Feb. 21. The exemption applies to only legal guardians of children, though another bill in the state Senate would remove interference with custody of children as a Megan’s Law offense; Pennsylvania and Louisiana are the only states where the crime is considered a violent sex offense even when no sexual contact occurred.
And all I’ve been off for weeks now I’m just glad to see people are starting to finally get off the Nazi registry especially people that should done been off long ago !! Thank you god
Just wondering if I should get an attorney or save my money and wait it out. I moved to PA in 2003 the state I came from I was a 10 yr registrant which I got my letter from them ending my requirements in 2013. When I moved here I was a 10 yr registrant until SORNA. I haven’t heard anything on my review but when I call PSP they said to fax them a copy of the letter from Iowa which I did. But like I said still waiting. I heard they are treating out of state SO’s differently. So should I or should I not get an attorney which I have no idea who to contact if I should.
@Terry Brunson
Terry, long time no talk, Dave here, we had talked on the phone, how did your Court stuff go.
@Everyone
Notice Jose Muniz never reg under Act 10?
Hello. Not 100% sure this is where I should put this never been good at that, but I have been looking at this site ever since I heard about the court ruling. And I am happy to say I have been removed from the list, but it turns out that on my background check I’m still on Megan’s law. Has anyone who has been successfully removed from this list run into this problem. Or can anyone explain to me why it would still say I’m on it? Anything would be appreciated.
Lol someone can tell ya obviously something’s not right there I don’t know who or what you get in contact with over that but there may be you may call like Megan’s Law or someone and and let them know about what happened and maybe they can fix it or something hopefully
Wow guys, its happening already for those still effected by this…..
A must read!!
https://www.bizjournals.com/philadelphia/prnewswire/press_releases/Pennsylvania/2018/06/28/PH41248
https://www.bizjournals.com/philadelphia/prnewswire/press_releases/Pennsylvania/2018/06/28/PH41248
Well, I was going to ask if I am to register a camper, that I only plan on camping in once or twice or three times a year. I live in a 4 bed room home. I dont live in the camper. I just got it and it sits near my home in the yard.
But after reading this, and looking definitions, I dont think I have to register it. I am under ACT 10, I fought the fight in lower court after Muniz, I have a court order stating to comply with Megans Law 2, Lifetime Registry. I was thrown on ACT 10 because of the new Retroactive, Unconstitutional, Punishment Law of ACT 10 of Feb 21 2018.
My camper will sit, it will be slept in for 30 days it wont be at a location for more than 7 days, oh yeah ACT 10 does not require that SORNA info.
But GREAT JOB TO THE JUDGE IN MONGOMERY COUNTY!!!!
GOD BLESS THAT MAN!
Retroactive – After the Fact. Act 10 is after the FACT!
Yeah thank God for people like Aaron Marcus
Debo glad to see you’re still on here helping people out with stuff man that’s really cool. Lol
@Debo
I didn’t hear about an appeal, do you have any other information, and HB 1952 I read through the requirements and I don’t see anything about campers but it is always good to be safe then sorry right.
https://www.bizjournals.com/philadelphia/prnewswire/press_releases/Pennsylvania/2018/06/28/PH41248
MONTGOMERY COUNTY JUDGE WILLIAM R. CARPENTER ISSUED A STUNNING DECISION ON JUNE 22, 2018 THAT THE RETROACTIVE PROVISIONS OF THE RECENTLY ENACTED PENNSYLVANIA SEXUAL OFFENDER REGISTRATION AND NOTIFICATION ACT “SORNA” ARE PUNITIVE, SEVERABLE AND UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
Last Friday, June 22, 2018, Judge Carpenter granted our Motion to Terminate Sexual Offender Registration Requirements under the new, revised Pennsylvania Sexual Registration and Notification Act statute enacted on February 21, 2018, which we argued on behalf of our client, C.L., was punitive, retroactive and unconstitutional. Under the provisions of the most recently revised “SORNA” our client who was convicted of Sexual Assault and related offenses would have been subjected to a “lifetime” registration requirement with the Pennsylvania State Police. At the time our client was sentenced by Judge Carpenter in 1997 to serve a seven to twenty year sentence, his most serious offense carried a ten year sexual offender registration and notification requirement, under the then existing Megan’s Law I. Megan’s law I was later subject to significant revisions in Megan’s Law 2 in 2000 and then Megan’s Law 3 which expired in 2012, when the first “SORNA” replaced it. These revised Sexual Registration and Notification statutes broadly expanded the length of the registration and notification requirements for those previously convicted of most sexual offenses. Thereafter, in 2017, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court held in Commonwealth vs. Muniz that the Sexual Registration and Notification Act known as “SORNA” was unconstitutional, as it violated the ex post facto clauses of the Pennsylvania and United States Constitutions based on its retroactive and punitive registration and notification requirements for previously convicted offenders. The most recently further revised “SORNA” statute signed into law on February 21, 2018, was the Pennsylvania legislature’s response to the sweeping Muniz decision. Judge Carpenter wholly agreed with our argument, that notwithstanding certain less onerous yearly registration provisions of the new “SORNA” and the opportunity for a lifetime registrant to petition to terminate the registration requirements after twenty five years, the longer, the retroactive registration requirements and other provisions were still punitive, severable and unconstitutional. Our client had NOT determined to be a sexually violent predator at the time of his 1997 sentencing. He had no prior record and he has had no further law enforcement contacts during the last twenty years. In conclusion, it appears likely that the “SORNA” related litigation will not end soon as thousands of previously convicted sexual offenders are greatly impacted by this unconstitutional Pennsylvania statute that has been repeatedly and unsuccessfully revised to try and pass Constitutional muster for over a decade.
John I. McMahon, Jr., Esquire (610-272-9502) website: McMahon4law.com
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The more cases getting in front of judges with this unconstitutional punitive registry scheme the better I don’t know why narsol doesn’t bring in some Heavy Hitters hopefully they will by the time it goes in front of the Supreme Court then again there’s lawyers they want money like mostly all of them Even without them Act 10 will be crushed anyway.
It’s a good damn thing we have people like Aaron Marcus
I am off the registery as of yesterday at some point, I checked my profile and I’m no longer listed on the psp website, been a long time coming, got email confirmation this morning that my status changed because I tracked myself for 3 months, wow I am in shock, now just waiting for a letter from psp, if you can offord a lawyer get one.
@sean
Omg I would say you have no inea what I feel ow but you do, to bad the registry totally fucked my life or I would have lots of friends to celebrate with, but I can say I made some great friends on these forums for sure, some people say I wouldn’t feel any different then I do day to day, I just don’t believe that, I was pre sorna and they wanted to put ,e on for life but they misunderstand wat my chargers were and how they applies in Pa compared to Co, they have no idea what they are reading on Act 10 what so ever, and they try and interpret another states laws and they are just plane wrong, but being pre sorna is I think the only way off the reg until they knock more of these laws down, once they get svp out of the way that will broaden things a bit more, I did hire an attorney as well, the first one ripped me off, I caught on real quick that he was going in the complete wrong direction, he said he needed to hire another lawyer in Co to fight my case, I fired him right there, my new attorney though petitioned psp and the Da not to long ago, it happened rather quickly After hey mailed out the petition.
@Debo
It was a shock but a good one that’s for sure, I know everything you were saying was true but the government people just want to twist it to keep us all on the reg but my attorney know these laws inside out.
My case happened in 1991 before the registration requirements came out I was released from prison in 2005 but the courts made it retroactive that I be required to register so i went to court and agreed to orentted offender which required me to register fore 10 years only once a year and I would no longer have to register then 3 months later I get paperwork in the mail saying everyone in Ohio was reevaluated and now I must register every 3 months fore the rest of my life I do not see how that is fare firstly without taking me back to court and it is not fare making it rectroactive when my case was in 1991 I have been searching fore help with this to no avail I was 19 when I went to prison I got out when I was 32 now I am 47 and yes been married 11 years this registration makes it so hard to get into living a normal life without persecution I am so confused that if I have the documents from court saying only 10 years should I follow that or paper received in mail saying lifetime register I really need an attorney that can help me I am disabled as we and can not pay for an attorney
Interesting case.
https://www.shafferengle.com/blog/2018/september/failure-to-register-megans-law/
You’ve got a friend in Pennsylvania.
I’m no longer on any sex offender registry as of today September 14th. 2018. Got an email from PSP stating search results not found. It feels great like all the bs just washed away.
I am on magens law and i was supposed to only be on for 15 yrs and the system screwed me over the judge lied about me being off in 15 yrs now im on for life which ia a rip off to my sentence when someone goes back on their word telling someone that they would be off the registry in 15 yrs and im still on even though they made a new law up since i moved up here to pa they should keep to there word and i should be off the registry by now i don’t have anything wrong with me i completely compiled with all the rules and do everything that is asked of me to do now i think it’s time that they take me off the registry after i was on 4 yrs past the time off being taken off my sentence it doesn’t matter what law they brought in i wasn’t living in Florida when they passed that law through so i shouldn’t have to go with there registry when im registered in Pa even if my offense was from Florida they even told me from Florida in 2013 i was getting off in 2014 and they lied to me i should be off by all the changes that they made in the magen law
Has anyone who was originally 10 years and has gone past that been removed without an attorney? How long past 10 years before you were removed? Where can I get an attorney? Yes I am past 10 years and should be removed.
So let me get this right if i am an out of stater they have to go by the state i came from? I was released from the registration in that state in 2013. So why is it taking so long for them to remove me from PA? How long is this review suppose to take?
Is this a new place to give comment on ACT 10 and ACT 29?
Does anyone know if PSP is still doing reviews? I have not heard anything about my review.