Of course it’s lawless. Unfortunately, SCOTUS has blessed this lawlessness.

The only way to stop it is to overturn the SCOTUS decision that these registries are civil rather than criminal penalties. The ex-post-facto only applies to criminal law is nearly 200 years old and they aren’t going to overturn that one.

Understood of course—but here’s the problem—someone who has served their time is (other than the ability to restrict voting, which is a very close call) stands before the government as any other citizen. So where is the source of power to restrict where they live (for old convictions)–all upon pain of serious criminal penalities. You don’t need a law degree to know how lawless this is.

Unfortunately there is really old precedent that the ex post facto thing only applies to criminal law, and much more recently, SCOTUS decided that the sex offender registries aren’t a criminal penalty.

A few years later my Great Niece played in a junior basketball league in the school gym on weekends. Word got out that if they had a “certified” lifeguard, they could open the pool after the league was finished. I volunteered to take the “certification course”. I had a 19 year old teaching the class. That was four hours of my life that I want back. I got the certification and they opened the pool.

The funny thing is that I was a Combat Search and Rescue swimmer in the Navy.

Except, of course, things like ex post facto when it comes to RSOs.