AL: Federal appeals court strikes down Alabama sex offender law banning Tuscaloosa father from living with his child

Source: wbrc.com 9/29/26 MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WBRC) – A federal appeals court on Tuesday ruled that a provision of Alabama’s sex offender law is unconstitutional as applied to a Tuscaloosa County father, deciding the state cannot permanently bar him from living with his young son. In a 30-page opinion, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit held that the Alabama Sex Offender Registration and Community Notification Act (ASORCNA) fails strict constitutional scrutiny because it enforces a mandatory, lifetime ban on parents living with their children…

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