Source: wzzm13.com 9/21/26 BERRIEN COUNTY, Mich. — The Berrien County Prosecutor said some sex offenders have been incorrectly removed from the statewide Sex Offender Registry after more than 20,000 people were removed after the Michigan Supreme Court ruled that changes to the state’s registry were unconstitutional. The county prosecutor said in a release on Monday, “Although the Berrien County Prosecutor’s Office does not maintain or administer the Sex Offender Registry, we have identified instances in which individuals appear to have been removed from the registry in error.” … Read the…
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Janice’s Journal: Congratulations, Michigan Registrants!
ACSOL congratulates more than 20,000 registrants in Michigan who are no longer required to register! They are now free to live without carrying the burden of registration. This magnificent and meaningful result was achieved due to one lawsuit filed in Michigan state court. A lawsuit that ended in the Michigan Supreme Court. According to that Court, the State of Michigan violated the state’s constitution by applying a law retroactively. That is, the State in 2011 passed a law that required individuals who were no longer required to register again or…
Read MoreMI: Michigan State Police Begins Removing Sex Offenders from Registry
Source: michigan.gov 9/11/26 “On September 9, 2026, the Michigan Supreme Court ruled that the 2021 Sex Offender Registration Act (SORA) amendments cannot be used to retroactively extend the registration requirements of anyone who committed their relevant crime prior to July 1, 2011, because doing so would be unconstitutional,” said Col. James F. Grady II, director of the Michigan State Police (MSP). “The MSP did not make this change to the law. However, the department maintains the database, is required to comply with the Court’s order and is taking the necessary steps to implement the ruling. Any concerns about or…
Read MoreMI: Michigan Supreme Court limits sex offender registry law to post-2011 cases
Source: michigan.gov 9/11/26 “On September 9, 2026, the Michigan Supreme Court ruled that the 2021 Sex Offender Registration Act (SORA) amendments cannot be used to retroactively extend the registration requirements of anyone who committed their relevant crime prior to July 1, 2011, because doing so would be unconstitutional,” said Col. James F. Grady II, director of the Michigan State Police (MSP). “The MSP did not make this change to the law. However, the department maintains the database, is required to comply with the Court’s order and is taking the necessary steps to implement the ruling. Any concerns about or…
Read MoreMI Supreme Court: SORA’s “Recapture” Provision Is Unconstitutional for Nonsexual Offenses
Source: Florida Action Committee 7/23/26 In a unanimous decision rendered yesterday, the Michigan Supreme Court struck down a key piece of the state’s Sex Offenders Registration Act — the so-called “recapture” provision, which forced people with old, pre-1995 sex offense convictions back onto the registry decades later if they were later convicted of any unrelated felony, sexual or not. James Ellis Jr. pleaded guilty to attempted rape in Illinois in 1983 and served his sentence — six months in jail, two years of probation. He was never required to register…
Read MoreMI: Sex offender reports confrontation, assault by kids
Source: woodtv.com 6/2/26 PLAINWELL, Mich. (WOOD) — A registered sex offender in Allegan County said he could not stay silent about the strangers who showed up at his home early Sunday morning. “I thought, ‘You know what? I’m gonna reach out to you guys because … if I don’t do something, (what if) somebody else loses their life because I didn’t take action?’ the husband and father told Target 8 Monday. He wasn’t willing to risk it. “The other sex offenders that live in the area that don’t know (about…
Read MoreMI: Scammers posing as Michigan State Police to contact employers of people on sex offender registry
Source: fox2detroit.com 3/25/26 Scammers pretending to be with Michigan State Police are preying on people on the state’s sex offender registry. According to MSP, the scammers are calling employers of people who are on the registry, which are listed on offenders’ registry profiles. These scammers are trying to get personal information and payment for outstanding warrants and … Click here to read the full article Click here to read on FAC’s website how this is happening in Florida also ACSOL reminds you that different kinds of scams like this can occur in ANY…
Read MoreMI: Michigan Sex Offender Registries Performance Audit Report shows problems
Source: audgen.michigan.gov 10/2025 [Sample information:] Inaccuracies in MSOR information for 9 (20%) of 45 samples active registrants and improper cancellation of 7 (16%) of 43 sample registrants Documentation was missing or incomplete for 4 (7%) of 60 sampled out-of-state registrants were no longer domiciled, temporarily residing, working, or attending school in Michigan Potentially 2,742 registrants have address discrepancies Read the report
Read MoreMI: Michigan GOP bill aims to ban pornography online, including content on “disconnection between biology and gender”
Source: cbsnews.com 9/15/25 A group of House Republicans has introduced a bill in Lansing that intends to ban all pornography online, including descriptions of “a disconnection between biology and gender.” House Bill 4938, named the “Anticorruption of Public Morals Act,” was introduced Thursday and has been referred to the House Judiciary Committee. “Don’t make it, don’t share it, don’t view it,” lead sponsor Rep. Josh Schriver of Oxford, a Republican from District 66, said in a social media post about the bill along with a request to add porn distributors to the…
Read MoreMI: Sex offender registry update passes state Senate
Source: wemu.org 6/18/25 The Michigan Senate voted Tuesday to update the state’s sex offender registry laws to comply with a recent federal court ruling. The decision blocked increased reporting requirements for people convicted before new, tougher laws took effect. The court also declared unconstitutional a provision that allowed the state police to decide if an out-of-state crime warranted reporting. Senate Majority Leader Winnie Brinks (D-Grand Rapids) said that part created a loophole for out-of-state offenders. Read the full article
Read MoreMI: A huge win in Michigan: U.S. District Court found that the registry is punishment!
Source: Florida Action Committee 3/27/25 This is big news: U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan ruled the state can’t enforce the entirety of its 2021 version of the law against offenders who committed their crimes before July 1, 2011. And the Court found that the registry is punishment! Read the decision and more on FAC’s website
Read MoreMI: Federal judge rules on ACLU lawsuit over Michigan’s sex offender registry
Source: detroitnews.com 10/1/24 A federal judge in Detroit has ruled parts of Michigan’s Sex Offenders Registration Act are unconstitutional, ACLU officials of Michigan said Monday. It said the decision will affect tens of thousands of people and follows two recent rulings by the Michigan Supreme Court, as well as numerous federal court decisions dating back to 2013. Last Friday, U.S. District Judge Mark Goldsmith ruled on a lawsuit the ACLU filed in February 2022 on behalf of several Michigan sex offenders over the state law, which was first passed in…
Read MoreMI: Michigan Supreme Court decision will likely strike hundreds from sex-offender registry
Source: apnews.com 7/29/24 DETROIT (AP) — Michigan’s policy of putting people on a sex-offender registry even if their crime was nonsexual is unconstitutional, the state Supreme Court said Monday. In a 5-2 decision, the court said a portion of a 2021 law is “cruel or unusual punishment” barred by the Michigan Constitution. A Wayne County man in 2015 was convicted of holding his wife and two children at gunpoint for hours. After his release from prison, he would face 15 years on the sex-offender registry because his unlawful-imprisonment conviction involved…
Read MoreMI: Police use license plate readers to arrest 6, including Wyandotte teacher, in undercover sex sting
Source: detroitnews.com 5/29/24 Six people, including a teacher in Wyandotte and two Venezuelan nationals, have been arrested on sex and prostitution charges after Taylor police and Homeland Security officials posed undercover and then used license plate readers and live-time cameras to pinpoint the suspects. The arrests stemmed from an investigation that ran from April 24-26 and involved both Taylor police and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Investigators used license plate readers to track alleged predators after they arranged online to meet the officers who’d posed as 14- and 15-year-old…
Read MoreMI: Police arrest 2 men in killing of Pontiac man known for fooling sexual predators Kylie Martin Detroit Free Press
Source: freep.com 9/30/23 Police have arrested two men in the Friday killing of a 40-year-old Pontiac man who often posed as a minor on social media in attempts to catch sexual predators. Robert Wayne Lee, who ran a popular Facebook page with 11,000 followers using the moniker “Boopac Shakur,” confronted two males, ages 17 and 18, seated in a Pontiac restaurant near the corner of North Perry and MLK Boulevard about 10:30 p.m. Friday, according to the Oakland County Sheriff’s office. Lee accused one of the men of being a…
Read MoreMI: Macomb County prosecutor appeals sex assault case to U.S. Supreme Court
Source: detroitnews.com 9/8/34 The Macomb County Prosecutor’s Office is appealing a case to the U.S. Supreme Court after a new trial was awarding to a man previously convicted of sexual assault. The Michigan Supreme Court found the Macomb County Circuit Court violated Anthony ____’s Constitutional rights during his jury trial for sexual assault when the judge closed the courtroom during the child victim’s testimony without putting specific reasons for the closure on the record. The court sent the case back to Macomb County for a new trial for ____. Lucido…
Read MoreMI: Michigan Governor signs new law raising legal age to marry and bans minors from marrying with parental consent
Source: fox17online.com 7/13/23 LANSING, Mich. — Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed legislation on Tuesday that prevents child marriage. The bills raise the minimum age to marry in Michigan to 18. The bills also prevent parents and guardians from consenting to a minor’s marriage. It also prohibits minors from being considered emancipated upon marriage, as well as allows a parent or guardian to apply for an annulment of a marriage if one of the married parties was under the age of legal consent. “I am proud that today child marriage has been…
Read MoreMI: Michigan sex offenders lose appeal to hold state officials liable for registry rules
Source: courthousenews.com 5/30/23 The Sixth Circuit on Tuesday ruled a class of registered sex offenders failed to establish supervisory liability against Michigan state officials for enforcement of unconstitutional registry laws. The group of anonymous plaintiffs went after current Governor Gretchen Whitmer and former Governor Rick Snyder, as well as Colonel Joseph Gaspar and Kriste Etue of the Michigan State Police, in their individual capacities and claimed they were liable for enforcement of the state’s Sex Offender Registration Act by lower-level law enforcement agencies. Two sets of amendments to SORA, passed…
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