With any lawsuit, it requires lots of money to pay an attorney. That attorney must be knowledgeable about the collateral consequences of the N.C. Sex Offender Registry.

Also, it takes a few people on the registry willing to be brave enough to come forward before a judge and the scrutiny of the general public. The registrants’ story will be rehashed all over again in court. It is a painful reality, but eventually, it pays dividends if a judge sees through the rhetoric and applies the law to protect all citizens equally.

But most of all, we must be cognitive that any case introduced has to be a winnable case. Otherwise, it is money thrown down the sewers.

The one fact remains. The courts have overturned most laws ranging from unjust civil rights of the 1960s to LGBT issues in 2015. It wasn’t legislation or lawmakers, but a judge ruling that wiped the law off the books. Nearly all of these instances were at the federal court level.

Our money is best spent by hammering away at the federal court system to win rights and dignity for all registrants across the country. This is why membership and donations for pending litigation are critical, stopping the registry and Jim Crow styled laws in its tracks.

Who & how do we need to do this?