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Coalition: Focus Mich. sex offender registry on risk

By "eAdvocate"

12-14-2009 Michigan:Coalition members point out that Michigan has highest ratio of citizens on state sex offender registry in the nationLANSING ? About once a month, a group of Michigan citizens sit around a table in one of the state Capitol?s ornate committee rooms and plot their uphill revolt.They probably wouldn?t describe it that way, but the members of the Coalition for a Useful Registry?s professional advisory board do acknowledge they don?t often end up on the winning side of legislative or judicial skirmishes over Michigan?s growing sex offender registry.But at the group?s Dec. 2 meeting, with members seated around highly polished wooden tables, coalition members ? including those with family on the registry ? discussed rare ?victories? at the legislature and state appeals court, and reviewed a looming deadline to comply with new federal mandates...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues, News, Recidivism and Studies on December 14, 2009 (boomark / email).