📅 This Week at a Glance (Sep 20–27, 2025)
Modest pace of new registry activity: Texas law now in force, Oklahoma high court upholds retroactive residency limits, and Maryland audit exposes oversight gaps.
✅ Now in force
- Texas HB 1465 — registry expansion to invasive visual recording offenses, effective Sept 1 and reported in force this week.
🕒 Moving / Introduced
- California SB 384 — ongoing petitions for removal under tiered registry law.
⚖️ Courts / Agencies
- Oklahoma Supreme Court upheld retroactive residency restriction (Donaldson v. El Reno).
- Michigan federal court struck lifetime registration and internet identifier mandates (Goldsmith ruling, prior but in news).
Gaps this week: No brand-new state registry bills or agency rules introduced in the 7-day window.
What’s ahead: Appeals in Michigan, oversight hearings in Maryland, and monitoring Texas HB 1465 enforcement.
⭐ Highlights
Top items frame this week. Details and action tools below.
Texas — HB 1465 takes effect
The new law adds invasive visual recording to registrable offenses. Enforcement is beginning statewide.
Oklahoma — Donaldson v. El Reno
The state Supreme Court upheld retroactive residency restrictions. Raises major ex post facto concerns.
Maryland — Audit exposes foster care registry gaps
State audit shows foster/guardianship approvals allowed registrants in homes. Oversight failures pose safety and policy concerns.
🏛️ Court Decisions & Litigation
- Donaldson v. City of El Reno (OK Supreme Court) — residency restriction retroactivity upheld, 5–3 ruling.
- Michigan (Goldsmith, USDC) — struck lifetime registration and internet identifier rules. Appeal expected.
📜 Legislation
- Texas HB 1465 — registry expansion, now enforced.
- California SB 384 — petitions for removal continue under tiering system.
📰 Media
Maryland Matters reported on the foster/guardianship audit revealing registry oversight gaps.
🔍 Watchlist
- Michigan appeals following Goldsmith decision.
- Implementation and enforcement of Texas HB 1465.
- CA SB 384 petition uptake and judicial review.
- Maryland legislative oversight hearings on foster care audit.
- Potential new residency restriction proposals.
- Future SMART Office SORNA updates.
🔎 SEO focus (internal)
- sex offender registry reform 2025
- registry removal / tiering / petition
- residency restrictions & ex post facto
- SORNA / federal registration rules
- registry oversight foster care / child welfare