10-7-17 Michigan:
HILLLSDALE, MI - A former Michigan National Guardsman is alleging Hillsdale County and state authorities insisted on registering him as a sex offender even though he had never been convicted of a sex crime.
Andrew Fether, 31, contends a disgruntled fellow servicemember, as a prank, falsely accused him of having child pornography on his laptop while in Iraq, and the unsubstantiated accusation led to years of unwarranted damage and suffering and a six-month jail sentence.
He filed a federal lawsuit late last month against the county, the county sheriff's office, a deputy, a former assistant prosecutor, three Michigan State Police troopers and two Michigan Sex Offender Registry analysts.
Fether argues law enforcement authorities "deliberately and systematically" both demanded that Fether be placed on the registry and failed to remove his name. This resulted in jail time, prevented Fether from attending his child's school functions and forced him to leave Michigan to find work, states the lawsuit, now pending in U.S. District Court in Grand Rapids.
Sheriff Tim Parker on Thursday declined to comment. The Michigan State Police do not make statements on ongoing litigation, spokeswoman Shanon Banner wrote in an email. ..Continued..
October 7, 2017
False child porn claim landed man on sex offender registry, lawsuit contends
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