By The Daily Caller (U.S.) | Created at 2026-10-01 20:56:47 | Updated at 2026-10-01 21:37:02
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Serial sex offender and former U.S. women’s gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar was removed from Michigan’s sex offender registry after a court ruling.
The Michigan Supreme Court recently ruled that 2021 amendments to the Sex Offender Registration Act cannot be applied retroactively to require registration for older offenses. As a result, Michigan State Police removed roughly 20,000 sex offenders whose crimes occurred before July 1, 2011, from the registry, according to TMZ.
Despite using his position to assault hundreds of athletes, Nassar’s name was legally required to be dropped from the list.
LANSING, MI - JANUARY 16: Larry Nassar appears in court to listen to victim impact statements prior to being sentenced after being accused of molesting about 100 girls while he was a physician for USA Gymnastics and Michigan State University, where he had his sports-medicine practice on January 16, 2018 in Lansing, Michigan. Nassar has pleaded guilty in Ingham County, Michigan, to sexually assaulting seven girls, but the judge is allowing all his accusers to speak. Nassar is currently serving a 60-year sentence in federal prison for possession of child pornography. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)
A search for Nassar’s name will not pull up any information.
“His conduct occurred before 2011 despite his convictions coming after,” the Eaton County prosecutor’s office said, according to CBS News.
The prosecutor’s office claimed that the Michigan Supreme Court could have applied a different interpretation upon hearing the case and allowed for certain sex offenders’ names to remain on the list.
They noted that the effectiveness of such lists “can be debated,” but maintained “should occur in the legislature, not by decision of the court,” according to CBS.
Prosecutor Doug Lloyd — the Republican nominee for Michigan Attorney General — blasted the court’s decision in a Sept. 27 statement issued to Facebook.
“My office, the Eaton County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office, and the Eaton County Courts have successfully secured justice by prosecuting many sexual predators,” he wrote. “Now the actions by the Supreme Court will allow several of those individuals to be removed from the Sex Offender Registry once they are released.”
— TMZ (@TMZ) October 1, 2026Lloyd continued, “Michigan’s county prosecutors strive to protect their communities. Time and time again the Actions of the Michigan Supreme Court, and the legislature, limit what they are able to do.”
“That is completely unacceptable and the people of Michigan must demand change,”
he wrote. (RELATED: Reality TV Personality Tony McCollister Pleads Guilty To Bestiality, Slew Of Heinous Sex Crimes)
LANSING, MI - JANUARY 16: Larry Nassar listens to victim impact statements prior to being sentenced after being accused of molesting about 100 girls while he was a physician for USA Gymnastics and Michigan State University, where he had his sports-medicine practice on January 16, 2018 in Lansing, Michigan. Nassar has pleaded guilty in Ingham County, Michigan, to sexually assaulting seven girls, but the judge is allowing all his accusers to speak. Nassar is currently serving a 60-year sentence in federal prison for possession of child pornography. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)
Nassar worked with the U.S. women’s gymnastics team as a doctor from 1996 to 2014 and remained a physician at Michigan State University until 2016. He exploited those positions of trust to sexually abuse hundreds of girls and young women.
He is currently serving multiple prison sentences that span decades.
The decision has raised serious concerns, as tens of thousands of offenders will no longer appear on Michigan’s sex offender registry, leaving members of the public in the dark about their convictions.
