What You Need to Know about the Michigan Supreme Court’s SORA Retroactivity Decision

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We have challenged Michigan’s Sex Offenders Registration Act (SORA) for more than 15 years. In response to repeated federal and state court rulings that the 2011 version of the law (“SORA 2011”) was unconstitutional, the state passed a new SORA that took effect in 2021 (“SORA 2021”).