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The complete Registry Matters archive.
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RM391: Is Living With Your Child a Right?
This week on Registry Matters: we look at why Michigan’s lifetime GPS tether survives a recent ruling. The tether is statutory punishment, while the registry is civil regulation, so the ruling doesn’t reach it. We also cover Tennessee’s botched execution of Christa Pike, which exposes secrecy, suffering, and the moral toll of premeditated killing. Finally,…
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RM390: 20,000 Removed From Michigan’s Registry
This week on Registry Matters: Michigan’s Supreme Court has removed about 20,000 people from the state’s sex offense registry. The ruling applies to people whose offenses came before 2011. We look at what the decision means for them and why lawmakers are likely to try to put them back on the registry. Show Notes [03:07]…
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RM389: Kansas Court Kills Lifetime Supervision
This week on Registry Matters: a South Carolina church implodes after a registrant volunteer scandal at Pawleys Island touches off arrests, lawsuits, and institutional panic — a case study in how quickly fear dismantles a congregation. We also break down Louisiana’s ballot measure to constitutionally ban post-conviction bail for minor-related offenses, stripping judges of individualized…
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RM388: Michigan Just Erased Its Pre-2011 Registry
This week on Registry Matters: Michigan’s Supreme Court ruled that retroactive sex offense registration is unconstitutional punishment, immediately erasing the pre-2011 registry and removing thousands of people from it. We break down what the decision means, who it covers, and how quickly relief actually reaches registrants on the ground. Then we turn to Minnesota, where…
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RM387: Seventh Circuit Guts an AI CSAM Charge
This week on Registry Matters: the Seventh Circuit gutted an AI-generated CSAM possession count after the government conceded that no real child was depicted — a ruling with major implications for how prosecutors charge synthetic imagery cases. We also walk through a practical framework for vetting a lawmaker before you approach them, judging legislators by…
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RM386: Tier 2 Forever: A Registry Trap
This week on Registry Matters: we dig into how mandatory sex offense treatment has drifted from therapy into a profitable surveillance and revenue operation — a class you pay for that keeps you monitored. Then a North Carolina church takes its own sheriff to court over whether a registered person can sit in a pew…
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RM385: Florida Sued: 98.9% of Housing Off-Limits
This week on Registry Matters: Florida’s registry lawsuit finally has the expert evidence it needed — proof that 98.9% of the state’s housing is off-limits, turning residency restrictions into what amounts to unconstitutional statewide banishment. We also examine why political candidates so reliably return or refuse donations from people with sex offense convictions, and why…
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RM383: Who’s Watching Every Car You Drive?
This week on Registry Matters: a registrant dies by suicide inside a treatment program, yet his family isn’t notified for eight months — a devastating failure of accountability we examine in detail. We also break down whether people pushed off social media by PFR policies have any real legal recourse against private platforms like Meta,…
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RM382: Fingerprinted for Making an Email Account
This week on Registry Matters: A bill that never became law is being enforced anyway — and registered people are paying the price for legislation that died in committee. We also dig into probation conditions so vaguely worded that officers can ban virtually any employment, the reality of transferring probation across state lines (hint: it’s…
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RM381: Does a Conviction Erase Parental Rights?
This week on Registry Matters: Advocacy groups finally force Pennsylvania State Police to answer for eight years of ignoring a legally mandated telephone registry verification system. Plus, we examine the 11th Circuit’s en banc ruling that recognizes parental rights as fundamental while stopping short of striking down Alabama’s ban on registrants living with their own…