A new law in Tennessee removes aggravated prostitution as a registerable violent sexual offense, a significant victory for people living with HIV who have been convicted of aggravated prostitution, allowing them to petition for removal from the sex offense registry.
In March, CHLP Staff Attorneys Jada Hicks, Sean McCormick, and Kae Greenberg met with the new Criminalization and Discrimination Working Group in the Stigma and Disparities Subcommittee of the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS (PACHA).
CHLP Executive Director S. Mandisa Moore-O'Neal and Staff Attorney Kae Greenberg attended the American Society on Aging's 70th annual On Aging conference last week in San Francisco.
This article by Ace Robinson in TheBody.com discusses our recent HIPAA webinar about how people's health information is shared, and what the implications are for PLHIV in a context of HIV surveillance and criminalization.
This article tells the story of Caymir Weaver, a man living with HIV in Ohio who is in jail for HIV exposure. As with so many HIV-related prosecutions, his case has little to do with facts and everything to do with him being othered by anti-Blackness, homophobia, transphobia, HIV exceptionalism & fear-mongering.
Today the U.S. Department of Justice filed suit against the State of Tennessee and the Tennessee Bureau of Administration (TBI) for their maintenance and administration of the aggravated prostitution offense and its associated sex offender registry (SOR) requirement.
Adam Rhodes interviewed CHLP Executive Director S. Mandisa Moore-O'Neal and Staff Attorney Kae Greenberg for this article in The Appeal about how the recent DOJ findings in Tennessee not only put other states with similar HIV criminal laws on notice but writ large provide a pathway to use the power of the ADA to fight ableism.
In response to a complaint filed by CHLP, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) found today that the enforcement of Tennessee’s aggravated prostitution statute against people living with HIV violates the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
