The state of Tennessee agreed to permanently remove a woman from the sex offender registry months after a judge found she had been “falsely labeled as a sex offender.” But state officials included a stipulation in the agreement forbidding her and her attorneys from discussing the agreement and her lawsuit with the media, The Tennessean reports. They also are barred from speaking to lawyers involved in “sex offender litigation.” That limitation could be unconstitutional, according to a First Amendment lawyer. The woman, who is not named, was threatened that a drug dealer would kill her son if she did not join him in kidnapping his own son. Police said the man ordered her and another woman also to provide sexual services. After six months in jail, the woman pleaded guilty to the…
How exactly can they forbid her from discussing her case publicly or with other attorneys? And what would they do if she does, put her back on it? Charge her with something else?
Definitely seems a 1st Amendment issue here.
There appears to be an NDA involved here in their agreement with her. The bigger issue is why is TN putting her on the PFR listing anyway? Because she willingly consented to sexual services or because there was a kidnapping being discussed? If the latter, then this is a prime example of how the registry is punishment when you add other crimes to it that don’t belong on it in the first place (not condoning the registry either). Why else would you add someone to a registry that she didn’t belong on in the first place? I would surmise TN realized this error when she brought it to the court and worked with her to get her removed for such an error but only under the guise of not revealing her strategy of how her team was able to do it to avoid others from doing the same and hence why they settled with a sealed settlement. I’d image the attys are not party to the NDA since they’d challenge it due to the same thing @Dustin said…1A.
We F’ed up, so you need to shut up. What are they going to do? Put her back on the registry? 🤣
She should leak her story and have a Lifetime movie. Tales From the Volunteer State, where kidnapping will land you on the registry: The whatever name is story.