CHICAGO (WTAQ) – The state will tell a federal appeals court in Chicago Friday why it should be allowed to keep monitoring certain sex offenders for the rest of their lives.
The Justice Department is appealing a decision from Federal Judge William Griesbach, who says it’s unconstitutional to make Michael Belleau of Green Bay wear an electronic monitoring bracelet.
A state law from 2006 requires child sex offenders to be monitored for life if they’ve served both prison time and civil commitments.
The 72-year-old Belleau says the bracelet is retroactive punishment, and an unreasonable search.
Belleau was convicted long before the lifetime monitoring law, but the state says it was in effect after his civil commitment ended in 2010.
(Story courtesy of Wheeler News Service)
