{"id":211653,"date":"2025-04-28T23:17:38","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T23:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/alabama\/court-challenges-alabama-statute-barring-sex-offenders-from-living-with-their-children\/"},"modified":"2025-04-28T23:17:38","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T23:17:38","slug":"court-challenges-alabama-statute-barring-sex-offenders-from-living-with-their-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=211653","title":{"rendered":"Court challenges Alabama statute barring sex offenders from living with their children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit effectively <a href=\"https:\/\/law.justia.com\/cases\/federal\/appellate-courts\/ca11\/24-10139\/24-10139-2025-04-23.html\">ruled<\/a> that a section of the Alabama Sex Offender Registration and Community Notification Act that prohibits convicted sex offenders from living with their own children is unconstitutional.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The court\u2019s decision came after Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall and the state of Alabama appealed a U.S. District Court\u2019s ruling in Henry v. Sheriff of Tuscaloosa County, a case brought against the state by Bruce Henry, a convicted sex offender.<\/p>\n<p>Henry, who pled guilty to possessing child pornography in 2013, challenged the state law prohibiting adult sex offenders convicted of a sex offense involving a child from residing or conducting overnight visits with a minor, including their own child. Having married and fathered a son after serving a 5-year prison sentence, Henry argued that the statute violated his First and Fourteenth Amendment rights.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Currently, Alabama law prohibits Henry from being in the same home as his son at any time between 10:30 p.m. and 6 a.m.; from being in the same home as his son for more than four hours a day on three consecutive days; or from being in the same home as his son for more than four hours a day on ten or more days in the same month. Alabama is the only state in the country with such a statute.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama ultimately ruled in favor of Henry, concluding that the statute was too broad and could not be considered as furthering Alabama\u2019s \u201ccompelling interest in protecting children.\u201d In making that ruling, the court made an injunction against the statute but stayed the injunction to give the state time to appeal the court\u2019s decision.<\/p>\n<p>After hearing the state\u2019s appeal, the Eleventh Circuit court made a ruling largely in agreement with the district court. The appellate court agreed that the statute \u201cviolates Henry\u2019s fundamental right to live with his child and, as a parent, to the care and custody of his child because his conviction alone does not prove that he is a danger to his child.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, the Eleventh Circuit court also reversed the district court\u2019s injunction, finding that the lower court \u201cabused its discretion\u201d in ruling that the statute was unconstitutional in all circumstances. The appellate court ruled that although the application of the statute was unconstitutional in Henry\u2019s case, it may be applicable in other cases \u2014 particularly in circumstances involving non-parental relatives like grandparents, stepparents, siblings or stepsiblings.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-6\" style=\"margin: 8px auto; text-align: center; display: block; clear: both;\">\n<div class=\"zox-post-ad-wrap\"><span class=\"zox-ad-label\">Advertisement. Scroll to continue reading.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>As a result of this decision, the case will now go back to the lower court for \u201cfurther proceedings consistent with this opinion\u201d \u2014 which could come in the form of a more limited injunction that would only void the statute\u2019s provisions concerning parental relatives.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe law of the 11th Circuit is clear that the statute cannot be constitutionally applied to our client, Bruce Henry. Whether the Court\u2019s ruling could be applied to non-party parents is a question which will have to be answered by Judge Huffaker when the case is remanded to him,\u201d Algert Agricola Jr., one of Henry\u2019s legal representatives, told APR.<\/p>\n<p>Alabama also has two weeks to file a petition for the appellate court to rehear the case, or the state could petition the U.S. Supreme Court to review the Eleventh Circuit decision.<\/p>\n<p><!-- CONTENT END 1 -->\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit effectively ruled that a section of the Alabama Sex Offender Registration and Community Notification Act that prohibits convicted sex offenders from living with their own children is unconstitutional.\u00a0 The court\u2019s decision came after Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall and the state of Alabama appealed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":211654,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11763],"tags":[80259,12750,80260,22710,11117,80261,680,410,47599,3681,80263,7513,80262,35570],"dealstore":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-211653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alabama","tag-11th-circuit-court-of-appeals","tag-alabama","tag-alabama-law","tag-barring","tag-challenges","tag-child-pornography","tag-children","tag-court","tag-criminal-justice","tag-living","tag-offenders","tag-sex","tag-sex-offender","tag-statute"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - 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