Is Michigan really trying to out do Minnesota or something?
The state of Michigan has erased thousands of sex offenders from its database, including one particular notorious name that many will immediately remember: Dr. Larry Nassar.
The move to scrub as many as 20,000 names from the state’s sex offender registry followed a Michigan Supreme Court ruling holding that “amendments issued in 2021 to the Sex Offender Registration Act can’t be used to retroactively require registration due to older incidents.”
This led to the removal of offenders whose crimes were committed before July 1, 2011.
Among those whose crimes precede that date is Dr. Larry Nassar.
Nassar was convicted of using his position as team doctor for USA Gymnastics from 1996 to 2014 and as team physician for Michigan State until 2016 to sexually abuse hundreds of young women.
Even though Nassar’s conviction wouldn’t come until many years after the July 2011 cut-off date, his name was still removed because many of his crimes predated July 2011, prosecutors explained.