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NY: Registered sex offender’s arrest raises concerns over New York’s registry flaws
Source: cnycentral.com 6/13/25 ... In New York, sex offenders are classified from Level 1 (low risk) to Level 3 (high risk) based on a point system. However, Ahern pointed out that the system's inability to accurately predict human behavior is a significant flaw. Read the full article
Confining sexually violent persons in the mental health system
Source: mhanational.org (Mental Health America) Summary Sexual crimes are an unspeakable tragedy and among the most serious forms of violence imaginable. This is especially true when the victims are children. In response, at least twenty states and the Federal government have enacted “sexually violent persons” legislation.1 These laws provide for indefinite commitment of persons who have committed sex offenses after they have completed prison terms...
MO: Kehoe signs into law Missouri bill voiding NDAs in child sex abuse cases
Source: missouriindependent.com 6/10/25 Legislation to void non-disclosure agreements in child sexual abuse cases was signed into law Tuesday by Gov. Mike Kehoe. The bill has been called “Trey’s Law,” referring to the late Trey Carlock, who died by suicide in 2019 after being sexually abused by Pete Newman at the Branson-based Kanakuk Kamps. Trey’s sister, Elizabeth Carlock, said at a hearing on the bill in February that...
OK: Sex offenders are a factor in homeless initiatives, city police say
Source: swoknews.com 6/10/25 Sex offenders pose a unique set of problems for those advocating for the homeless. Det. Donald Pauley, who oversees Lawton’s Sex and Violent Offender Registry, explained Lawton Police Department’s existing policies for sex offenders and the registry, as members of the City Council’s Homeless Action Committee continue to weigh decisions about homeless issues. That includes locations that can be created as...
After Kennedy: pondering Eighth Amendment functioning and litigating (e.g. child rape laws)
Source: sentencing.substack.com 6/9/25 With states enacting new capital child rape laws, whither the Supreme Court's 2008 ruling Kennedy v. Louisiana? The U.S. Supreme Court in 2008, by a 5-4 vote in Kennedy v. Louisiana, overturned a state death sentence for a man convicted of child rape. Though rape was commonly a capital offense in the Founding era and for centuries thereafter, the Kennedy opinion said the...
CA: Humboldt County compliance sweep fails to find any registrants who reoffended
Source: lostcoastoutpost.com 6/6/25 Between May 19th and May 30th, 2025, the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office conducted a sex offender registration compliance sweep throughout the County of Humboldt. Representatives from the Arcata Police Department, Rio Dell Police Department, Humboldt County District Attorney’s Office and State Parole assisted during the operation. During compliance sweeps, law enforcement attempts to contact registered sex offenders in Humboldt County to...
Digitally Branded: The Developmental Catastrophe of Juvenile Sex Offender Registries [paper]
Source: SSRN and authored by Tammi Walker 6/6/25 Abstract Juvenile sex offender registration was never a natural fit for the youth justice system, but in the digital age, it has become deeply harmful. What began as a paper-based precaution has evolved into a sprawling digital regime that permanently brands adolescents at the most formative stage of life. This article examines how technological change has...
CA: Senate Approves Senate Bill 680 As Amended
Source: ACSOL The California Senate approved Senate Bill 680 (SB 680) on June 4 by a wide margin. The only person who voted against SB 680 was Senator Scott Weiner, author of the Tiered Registry Law. "We commend Senator Wiener for once again protecting individuals charged with or convicted of a sex offense," stated ACSOL Executive Director Janice Bellucci. "It is unfortunate that the...
CA: Venice Break-In Highlights Alarming Rise in Homeless Sex Offenders, Study Finds
Source: westsidecurrent.com 6/5/25 VENICE — A man accused of breaking into the apartment of an 86-year-old woman at a Venice senior housing complex with alleged intentions to sexually assault her has a history of parole violations and criminal convictions — including failure to register as a transient sex offender — raising new alarms about the intersection of homelessness, registration laws, and public safety in...
TX: Jury seated in trial of man accused of targeting registered sex offenders
Source: beneaththesurfacenews.com 6/2/25 An Erath County jury of seven men and five women were seated on Monday in the trial of Charles Austin Broyles, a suspect unofficially dubbed the “vigilante shooter.” Broyles is being tried for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon in connection with shooting a registered sex offender in the face in December 2023. He is being represented by Stephenville...
General Comments June 2025
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Janice’s Journal: Jamaica Gets It, Why Not the U.S.?
The island nation of Jamaica has a sex offender registry and that is bad. However, the registry in Jamaica is not available to the public and that is good. One reason the Jamaican registry is not public is a vocal human rights activist who has warned and continues to warn that making the Jamaican registry public could lead to dangerous consequences. The dangerous consequences...
England: Facial Recognition in Action: Police Uses AI to Apprehend Sex Offender
Source: i-hls.com (Israel Homeland Security) 5/29/25 A recent police operation in London has demonstrated the real-world capabilities of live facial recognition technology. In a high-profile case, law enforcement identified and arrested a registered sex offender in breach of a court order, thanks to facial recognition deployed on the streets of southeast London. The technology, which scans faces in real time and compares them against...
OK: Death penalty on the table for first time child sex crime offenders
Source: news9.com 5/27/25 New Oklahoma law, effective November 1, enforces tougher sentences for child sex crimes. Rep. Turner: "When they harm our children, we will no longer tolerate it." Oklahoma’s law against child sex predators just got tougher. Governor Stitt signed Senate Bill 599, so now, if anyone’s found guilty of committing lewd acts with a child under 14, they could face the death penalty...
Trinidad: Police caution citizens not to misuse sex offender website
Source: loopnews.com 5/28/25 Sharing or reproducing information published on this country’s sex offender registry website could land you in jail for three years. The warning against misusing the website was issued by Assistant Superintendent of Police for the Criminal Investigation Department and Criminal Records Office (CRO) Toolah Julien at yesterday’s police media briefing. He said section 48 (4) of the Sexual Offences Act says:...
UT: A judge opted not to send a child sex offender to prison. GOP lawmakers are demanding he resign.
Source: sltrib.com 5/28/25 A chorus of Republican lawmakers, led by House Speaker Mike Schultz, are demanding a Utah judge resign — or they could explore impeachment — after the judge did not send a man to prison who pleaded guilty to having child sex abuse material. But the Utah courts said in response that 7th District Judge Don Torgerson followed the sentencing guidelines that...
Jamaica: Sex offender registry danger – Advocate says making names public could be harmful
Source: jamaica-star.com 5/26/25 Making Jamaica's sex offender registry public could do more harm than good, warns human rights activist Carla Gullotta, even as recent crimes against young girls have ignited a fierce debate about the protection of the nation's children. Various incidents, including the sexual assault of two sisters in Old Harbour, St Catherine, by a man who had served time in prison for...
CA: Senate Amends, Approves Bill Requiring Registration for Unlawful Intercourse
Source: ACSOL CA Senate Bill 680, which could have added up to 30,000 people to the registry was first amended, then passed by the Senate Appropriations Committee on May 23. The original language of the bill would have required individuals convicted of sexual intercourse with a minor who is more than years younger in age to register as a sex offender regardless of the...
ACSOL Online Meeting June 21, 2025
You are invited to join ACSOL Executive Director and civil rights attorney Janice Bellucci and an ACSOL board member for our next meeting. The meeting will be held on Saturday June 21 online on Zoom beginning at 10 a.m. Pacific time, 1:00 PM Eastern, and will last at least two hours. You can use the Zoom app or you can call in using a...
UK: Britain considering chemical castration for sex offenders under prison reforms
Source: reuters.com 5/22/25 LONDON, May 22 (Reuters) - Britain is considering mandating the use of chemical castration for sex offenders under an overhaul of the justice system aimed at freeing up more space in its overcrowded prisons. One of the first acts of the Labour government in July was to announce plans to release more prisoners early to tackle a crisis of overcrowding in...