Now the Question is, What to do About It?

A number of news articles have shown up in major publications, this last couple of months starting with an article that was posted at https://casetext.com/posts/the-supreme-courts-crucial-mistake-about-sex-crime-statistics  (PDF at http://ssrn.com/abstract=2616429 ) from the information within this article we created a front page article here at SOSEN presenting a challenge to legal groups across the country as a way to to correct the damage that was done by the Supreme Court decisions in the 2002 case McKune v. Lile, 536 U.S. 24, 33 (2002) and the following year in Smith v. Doe, 538 U.S. 84 (2003).

In our article “Time to File a Petition for WRIT of ERROR CORAM NOBIS in Smith v. Doe” http://sosen.org/blog/2015/06/17/time-to-file-a-petition-for-writ-of-error-coram-nobis-in-smith-v-doe.html, we tried to point out the similarities between these decisions and the one that allow the implementation and continued incarceration of Japanese-Americans citizens during World War II.  The reason then and now was that false information or lies were provided to the courts by government agencies in order to punish a politically unpopular group. You would think that after the disgrace of using false information in the Korematsu v. United States case, that the United States Supreme Court would be more careful in demanding accurate information before throwing a politically unpopular group to the wolves.

Now others are starting to see the problems with using pseudoscience as a justification for treating some American citizens differently in violation of constitutional standards including 14th amendment. Other articles are showing up across the country, pointing out the discrepancies. When the courts rely on false information or for that matter follow the political flow and cherry pick the numbers that they want to use to, and ignore other numbers scientifically more relevant that were provided, simply to justify their decisions. Later when accurate and pertinent information comes to light regarding prior decisions that have had far-reaching results including  causing extreme mental, emotional, physical and financial damage to a politically unpopular groups, and collateral damage to their family members. The court should take it upon itself to correct these errors in judgment that they made based on false information. and moreover shame the people involved in providing that false information.

Here are just some of the other articles that have shown up in just the last three months related to the false information that was provided to the courts:
The New York Times article Sex Offenders Locked Up on a Hunch

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/opinion/sunday/sex-offenders-locked-up-on-a-hunch.html?_r=1

The Avvo NakedLaw Blog The system for punishing sex offenders is broken http://nakedlaw.avvo.com/crime/the-system-for-punishing-sex-offenders-is-broken.html

The Washington Post More fuel for the movement to reform sex offender laws
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/08/18/more-fuel-for-the-movement-to-reform-sex-offender-laws/

The New York Times Thought Crimes Exist In America 20 Years Late
http://mimesislaw.com/fault-lines/ny-times-realizes-thought-crimes-exist-in-america-20-years-late/2532

The Vox Policy & Politics How the Supreme Court used a made-up statistic to expand sex offender registries
http://www.vox.com/2015/8/19/9177941/supreme-court-sex-offenders

The Washington Post How a dubious statistic convinced U.S. courts to approve of indefinite detention  By Radley Balko
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2015/08/20/how-a-dubious-statistic-convinced-u-s-courts-to-approve-of-indefinite-detention/

Excerpt:  In a forthcoming article in Constitutional Commentary, Ira Mark Ellman and Tara Ellman note that Kennedy’s magic words about the recidivism rate of sex offenders — frightening and high — have been cited 91 times by courts around the country, most in the course of upholding state laws allowing for severe ex post facto punishments that can last from years, to decades, to a lifetime.

 They include registration requirements for which compliance can range from burdensome to impossible; residency restrictions that effectively restrict ex-offenders to living in the shadows (or under a bridge); and restrictions that can make it nearly impossible to find a job, forge meaningful relationships, worship, or generally participate in civilized life.

 The scary thing is, as the Ellmans explain, there’s no empirical data to support Kennedy’s oft-cited phrase, and the statistic Kennedy himself cited is paper thin.

The entire scenario about the court’s decision is based on the false information that was provided by government officials and driven by a political agenda. In actuality, there has been no studies except for the Nebraska study that actually looked at the reoffending rate for entire registry. The Nebraska study came up with 6/10 of one percent reoffense rate for those on the Nebraska Registry  A true study would look at the entire registry, not people coming out of prison with specific crimes, and not people coming out of failure-based treatment programs. I suggest you look at these articles, because in actuality, the reoffense rate for people on the registry is far less than 1% and in most states, the justification for the law’s existence is the high re-offense rate , which is now proven to be a outright lie that was created to add burdens to a politically unpopular group.

http://sosen.org/blog/2015/07/07/destroyed-families-destroyed-lives-all-because-of-a-lie.html
http://sosen.org/blog/2015/01/12/simple-question.html
http://sosen.org/blog/2014/11/06/why-are-the-reconviction-rates-so-important.html