sex offender registry

State police removed nearly half the people from Michigan's sex offender registry on Friday, following a ruling from the Michigan Supreme Court that found it unconstitutional to include those who were added to the list before amendments to the law were made in 2011.

The Michigan House Judiciary Committee voted to advance a pair of bills that would make it illegal for those on the state’s sex offender registry to work at businesses that primarily serve minors.

Auditor General report on Michigan State Police handling of sex offender registries finds shortcomings.

The state Senate passed a bill that would have judges, rather than state police, decide if someone convicted of an out-of-state sex crime needs to register in Michigan.

A lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan says the law unconstitutionally altered rules for defendants after they'd already been sentenced.

The Michigan Supreme Court says the state must stop putting people on the sex-offender registry if their crime was not sexual.

The civil rights group has successfully sued the state over the issue before. Those court decisions forced the state legislature to change some aspects of the law in 2021. But ACLU attorney Miriam Aukerman said the legislature didn’t do enough, and the new law is still unconstitutional.

The state of Michigan will no longer be able to enforce key parts of its Sex Offender Registry Act, unless state legislators write a new law by this…

Lawyers will make their case in front of a federal judge on Wednesday over what to do about the state’s sex offender registry.The Sixth Circuit Court of…

Today on Stateside, we talk to Republican state House Speaker Lee Chatfield about the ongoing negotiations between Governor Gretchen Whitmer and the…