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Michigan Sex Offender Registry: 20,000 Names Removed

An open ledger with a strip of lines lifted away, picturing the Michigan sex offender registry after 20,000 names were removed

In two days, more than 20,000 names disappeared from the Michigan sex offender registry. Larry Nassar’s was one of them. He is still in prison. The ruling behind the removals was unanimous. It rests on a constitutional rule that Michigan lawmakers have now run into twice, and that courts in other states have applied too. […]