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Banished: A family on the sex offender registry follows the story of one family as they take us through the criminal proceedings and the changes they must go through when preparing for the registry.

Co-Sponsored by: New Jersey Office of the Public Defender, NeighborCorps Re-Entry Services, National Religious Campaign Against Torture in New Jersey, Town Clock Community Development Corporation, Brady Project of Middlesex County, Anti-Poverty Network of New Jersey

The play also features interviews with Elizabeth Letourneau, Director of the Moore Center for the Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse at Johns Hopkins University, and Patty Wetterling, national children’s safety advocate whose son’s disappearance led to the Jacob Wetterling Crimes Against Children and Sexually Violent Offender Registration Act.

Featuring:

Nancy Boykin*, Robert Carr*, Meridith C Grundei*, Aaliyah Habeeb*, Jean Tafler*, Dave Seamon

*Appearing courtesy of Actors Equity Association

The panel discussion that occurs after each performance with leading experts connects the play to data and public policy related to the sex offender registry and its harms.

Panelists Include:

J. Amos Caley, Associate Pastor at Reformed Church of Highland Park and lead organizer for the National Religious Campaign Against Torture in New Jersey

Stephanie Lutz, Assistant Deputy Public Defender, Special Hearings Unit, NJ Office of the Public Defender

Alexander Shalom, Senior Supervising Attorney and Director of Supreme Court Advocacy for ACLU-NJ

Banished is an oral history and storytelling project documenting the harms of the sex offender registry, told in three parts. The contained works are co-written by Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg, a staff writer for The Appeal, and coLAB Arts producing director, Dan Swern. It was developed with support from the New Jersey Council for the Humanities. The project’s scholar-in-residence is Laura Cohen, Distinguished Clinical Professor of Law, Justice Virginia Long Scholar, and Director, Criminal and Youth Justice Clinic at Rutgers Law School.