SADO's CDRC will kick off its 2024 virtual lunchtime training series on February 20th with SADO's Assistant Defender, Jessica Zimbelman, on SORA. The Sixth Circuit has called SORA a “byzantine code governing in minute detail the lives of” people on the registry. The Michigan Supreme Court has described SORA as a “publicly accessible database that imposed significant restrictions on the lives of registrants.”
This training will cover how we ended up with such a broad statute that fails to protect the public, which offenses require registration, the plethora of duties imposed by SORA, and objections to registration at sentencing. The training will also include a case law update on all things SORA.