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Does # 1-6 v. Snyder, No. 16-cv-13137 (E.D. Mich.) (Does II) is a class action lawsuit brought on behalf of all people required to register under Michigan’s Sex Offender Registry Act (SORA). Does II seeks to enforce a successful earlier lawsuit challenging SORA that was brought on behalf of six people (Does I). The purpose of Does II is to apply that earlier decision to all Michigan registrants. This lawsuit only applies to the version of SORA in effect before March 24, 2021, meaning it does not apply to the current version of SORA. In August 2016, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals held that the old SORA’s 2006 and 2011 amendments – which created exclusion zones limiting where registrants can live and work, retroactively lengthened registration periods to life, and imposed many new and in-person reporting requirements – violated the U.S. Constitution’s Ex Post Facto Clause. See

In recognition of Native American Heritage Month, we talked with Fay Givens, former executive director of the nonprofit organization American Indian Services. She is also co-producer of a documentary about the boarding schools for Indigenous People that hundreds of thousands of Indigenous children were forced to attend between 1869 and the 1960s, tearing them from their homes and families in a brutal act of cultural genocide. Along with discussing that, Ms. Givens also talked about her family’s forced removal from their ancestral lands when she was a child, the untold contributions her people have made to the world, the problems that continue to plague them, and a reason to be hopeful. Q: What is your tribe? A: Mississippi Choctaw and Ch

A nationwide attempt to censor discussions of race in the classroom is underway. These bills don’t just set back progress in addressing systemic issues, they also rob young people of an inclusive education and blatantly suppress speech about race.

We’re Trying to Make it Stop

The Biden administration is filling private prison beds emptied out by its own Executive Order with immigrant detainees.

Hundreds of people poured into the streets of Detroit day after day in the summer of 2020 to support Black Lives Matter protests against police brutality following the murder of George Floyd.

Hundreds of people poured into the streets of Detroit day after day in the summer of 2020 to support Black Lives Matter protests against police brutality following the murder of George Floyd.

Proposed ID Laws Create Barriers Across Michigan.

“To hold that piece of paper brought tears to my eyes.”