Comments on: Sex offender fee advances to NC Senate https://ncrsol.org/2018/03/sex-offender-fee-advances-to-nc-senate/ Fighting for registered citizens and families Fri, 02 Aug 2019 16:05:05 +0000 hourly 1 By: Robert B https://ncrsol.org/2018/03/sex-offender-fee-advances-to-nc-senate/#comment-140 Mon, 21 May 2018 23:03:24 +0000 https://ncrsol.org/?p=795#comment-140 HB 684 Registration Fees
This Bill adds $90 annually to any person on the registry to what they already have to pay for probation fees and everything else. If you read only section 14-208.7A(a) and the last bit of section 14-208.7A(b) most people will freak out. Keep reading until the very end. On page 4 of that Bill Section 14-208.12A(a1)(4) you will read that if you have had to registered before October 1, 2017 no registration fees can be held against you. I also suspect that when this Bill gets it’s final pass the date will change to the date of it’s final passing.

That would take care of any constitutional issues. North Carolina does not have a great track record in federal court when it comes to constitutional challenges. Keep in mind that NC legislators will try to get what they want passed and deal with any blow-back later. Constitutional challenges of laws in federal court will take at least two years. In those two years a lot of people on the registry will have paid that $90 and will never get that money back even if a challenge wins all the way to the SCOTUS.

If someone filed a challenge in federal court the day this law passes (we all know it’s going to pass), maybe a federal judge will put an injunction to prevent any money from being collected until the court makes a decision. Fighting this $90 fee wont win. The SCOTUS has already said that fees for registry is acceptable. The only thing that can or would be fightable would be the ex post facto part. Federal courts all over the country are putting stops to ex post facto laws so that much is good.

]]> By: Pip https://ncrsol.org/2018/03/sex-offender-fee-advances-to-nc-senate/#comment-139 Wed, 16 May 2018 22:32:11 +0000 https://ncrsol.org/?p=795#comment-139 Is this not an ex post facto law? Will those of us on the registry now have to pay here fees? Sounds like a good lawsuit.

]]> By: Richard W Werkheiser https://ncrsol.org/2018/03/sex-offender-fee-advances-to-nc-senate/#comment-138 Mon, 14 May 2018 00:20:57 +0000 https://ncrsol.org/?p=795#comment-138 This law is stupid and in turn for people that are not working won’t be able to pay it. Then when it is time to get off the registry. The person won’t be able to until he pays the amount owed. This a bad bill.

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