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Mike R,
You seem to have an affinity for legal maneuvers. I think that you could possibly help us. I am a part of the RTAG group. Can you send me an email at latintravel@registranttag.org
address to Mike
So I’m still thinking about involuntary servitude and how someone said it’s okay for jury duty or selective service.
Now, I know you get paid for jury duty as well as excused from your job. Similarly, I presume the same for selective service, though it’s never been implemented.
As a registrant who is not under any punishment custody, I’m forced to do service for free for life. Wait, that’s completely different than serving jury duty.
Compensation is factor 3 of 4 for involuntary servitude.
If involuntary servitude is not punishment, then it is prohibited.
http://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/tracking-violent-ex-cons-registries-grow-but-do-they-work/
Patch.com, a nationwide local news Website owned by AOL, is disgracefully posting a news story (maybe several all over the country) highlighting for Halloween that there are sex offenders in your neighborhood and pin-pointing where they are.
http://patch.com/california/hollywood/4-sex-offenders-hollywood-2016-halloween-registry-map
This is MUCH worse than the Megan’s Law website since this is pushing it out to people who otherwise would not care, throwing it in their faces and trying to scare them. And it is doing so on a localized, neighborhood approach, really targeting the registrants in that particular neighborhood.
Something is very wrong about this. 290 bars even the police from pushing the information out unless they can show the specific individual they push it out about is really an imminent danger. Here we have Patch pushing it out about ALL registrants, and effectively saying all of them are a serious danger to children, and no matter what their offense was.
How can it be that the police can’t do this, but anyone else can and with no oversight or limitations?!
(And why do I find it hard to believe that there are only four registrants in Hollywood on the Megan’s Law website!)
I have a question and would appreciate any answers you all may have. I was convicted of possession of child porn and sentenced to 41 months. Been out almost three years and living in California. I was homeless the first twelve months then got an apartment. During this time I was not on the public registry. I was evicted for sub-leasing my apartment via Airbnb to generate additional money. Since September 15, 2016 I have been registered as transient and now I discover that I am on the public registry. I have not committed an new crime and my Static99R is Low.
Can anyone tell me why I am now on the public registry? Can anyone point me to a California state resource that explains the policy on the public registry?
Thanks for your help.
Maybe someone familiar with Nevada and federal law can help me out here.
I was convicted in federal court in CA and first began registering in late 2006. I remember seeing something on my probation report indicating Tier 2. I’m assuming that was my federal SORNA designation, since CA is not a SORNA state. My home address wasn’t subject to disclosure on the ML site.
I recently moved to NV and under current law here they classified me Tier 1. I understand in NV a Tier 1 registrant can petition for removal after 10 years of registering, but it’s unclear if that means continuously within this state, or total time registering anywhere.
I’m confused as to whether or not I can petition for removal here soon since the 10 year mark is coming up, and whether or not my federal designation has any bearing on this (or if that only applies if I’m in a SORNA-compliant state). And I wonder, if I am able to petition for removal and am successful, if the AWA ends up being enacted, if I’d be required to register again.
I checked Patch in Chicago and neighborhoods here and can find nothing about sex offenders and Halloween, so I think this must be a local Hollywood story. Patch is famously edited at a very local level, so there must be some editor in that town who has created this. Maybe try calling them and complaining. Janice, how about threatening an injunction?
Intersting article in SF Chronicle:
http://www.sfgate.com/news/texas/article/Tracking-violent-ex-cons-Registries-grow-but-do-10421934.php
You’d think with all the data, they’d abolish all registries as they are counterproductive. But no! They want more.
See also 42 USC § 16913 for federal law…..And no Timmer I dont have the specific rates but they are in the reports that I have posted….
To Ms. Bellucci,
I just don’t understand any of this. With all the evidence that has been brought forward about the low re offense rates, the studies showing the counter productiveness of the registry, the violence towards us that is completely ignored as a valid hate crime, I ask why. Why can’t you find one politician that will take a moral stand. I will gladly sacrifice my life to bring attention to this horror. I almost sacrificed it in Iraq, and that was for something I didn’t believe in. For this, my death would give meaning to a cause.
Dayton, Minnesota passes restriction on sex offenders living near churches, pumpkin patches & apple orchards.
Yes, you read that right!
http://www.startribune.com/freed-sex-offenders-in-a-catch-22-amid-community-backlash/399169141/
To David K
All of those people should be arrested and their kids taken from them for endangering the public because of their phobias. You can’t allow people to get their way because of fear, if u do u might as well throw out the constitution and law. But this is all the result of the SCROTUS decision in Smith v Doe. All of the scrotum members should be hung from anything capable of hanging them.
Suppose you’re a 290 in CA and you want to spend 2 weeks in Vegas. If you drive to Primm and buy a CA lottery ticket every 47 hours, you never have to register?
David Post writes on the Washington Post today: “A setback for First Amendment protection for anonymous speech”
This is in regard to Illinois Supreme Court upholding the provisions of the Illinois sex offender statute compelling disclosure of all “Internet identifiers.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2016/10/31/a-setback-for-first-amendment-protection-for-anonymous-speech/?postshare=4021477937411983&tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.a5e0064e3f1d
NotLikingCA,
This exact issue was brought up on one of the conference calls a few weeks back. I believe that it was mentioned that although you would have a receipt showing you were out of the State of Nevada and the clock should indeed reset with each visit to Calif. during your vacation…..It too would be a good idea to move to a new hotel each 47 hours as well. I mean would you trust law enforcement in Nevada to just say “No Problem”.
I would somehow fear a Prosecutor would find a way to convict if you retained the same address ie: “The same hotel for 2 weeks straight”.
I’ll venture into this thicket….this is not specific legal advice, and I can see were Chance and Janice wish to back up a little on this.
People, meaning us, want to push the rules…(maybe because we hate them and rightly so, but this is not what is at issue)…and a simple suggestion that it might be a good idea to step out of the state to re-set the clock…is a nice idea…for very limited use.
But I have seen this balloon a maybe two week project for some people….this seems just crazy to me and too cute by half.
People are going to have to accept that Nevada and Las Vegas specifically has become dangerous for us…and don’t play around…maybe one trip and a change in hotels and you can get away with 3 1/2 days….but you are starting to look for trouble in any longer time frame and, some people will be blaming this on Chance or Janice if they get caught in this tricky overstaying in Las Vegas.
This is why you won’t be getting a specific and hard answer on this…there is no good answer, except to be damned careful.
The responsibility is always yours.
Really, I wish everyone well, but I will at least be honest with you, give it to you straight.
James
Lets see how long this lasts!
http://www.fox13news.com/news/local-news/214862010-story
Is there a blog available for chatting and sharing commiserating? If not, would it be possible to start one here, or maybe link it to this site? I have found a few that address the needs from a “co- offender” stance, such as wife, friends, dependents, etc. Any help or direction would be greatly appreciated.🙏🙏
The Wisconsin authorities are not calling the attack/ death of the Saudi student a hate crime as of now. Aren’t ALL attacks made against a person where no profit or gain is involved a hate crime? Liquor or anything else should not be a mitigating factor . We are supposed to be a “civil society”, and therefore attacks show a complete lack of control and in most cases an underlying pathology. The current political and legal climate is close to condoning such actions and we are no longer safe from someone acting on the most bigoted of ideal. While overseas , I heard many times, ” hurt one of ours, and two of yours will suffer the same fate”. I see no need to change that mentality given the situation we are facing.
Getting the visual media involved in our cause is ( I feel ) the best course to take with regards to public notice and education. So many are ignorant of laws in place adversely affecting post incarcerated Americans. Since over half of our citizens don’t spend any time reading , A well made movie in documentary form could go a long way. Micheal Moore comes to mind. The offender population is not the only group affected, and the bad reputation that our penal system has already could fuel this type of coverage. I attempted to contact him, but since I am not allowed on many forms of social media, my attempts were thwarted. Any else willing to try?
I just found out today that my professional liability insurance will not be renewed, my credentials will not be renewed in Jan 2017, and with that I will not be able to work in my profession. I worked with seniors health for over 18 yrs, and now I have nothing. I am too young to retire and receive S.S. , I live in bay area, so menial labor won’t make survival possible, and with a yr left on probation and this B.S. offender treatment, I have a feeling I should just pull the handle and flush. I listened to int. Travel call, and that told me that getting back to my home is all but a distant dream now. I met my love on a new years eve and lost her on my birthday. I will find her again on new years eve.
Despite two thorough research studies that have debunked the high recidivism rate (2013 and 2014) by respected criminology professor Lisa Sample, the media still gets it totally wrong, breathlessly publishing scare stories on the rare occasions when a registered citizen reoffends. Here’s a description from Nebraska, with links to the studies.
https://nebfacts.blogspot.com/2014_08_01_archive.html
Dr. Sample should certainly be called upon to testify on her findings in the IML appeal/new case, Packingham, or other legal challenges. Here’s her address: lsample@unomaha.edu
It does seem that maybe a productive avenue would be a media launch with professional PR, to underpin the court cases. I think that affecting positive public attitude was instrumental in legalizing marriage equality (no, all gay male parents don’t molest their sons).
I have a unique case. Was convicted in 2007 unlawful sex with minor it was consensual Romeo Juliet situation she was 15 I was 24. My attorney plead me down to a misdemeanor.pc 243.4 (e) And was released after 6, months with probation. Went to college for a few yesrs.on GI Bill. (Ten years US Navy) completed my probation while going to school. I never had a parking ticket in my life before all this. and after taking a break from college because I needed to get a job. I was actually hired by a hospitality company. I always wondered why my conviction never showed up I was hired and even passed the background check no issies. I worked as Sanitation janitor for 4years. had a decent job union benefits. Unfortunately i failed to register it was my fault in 2013. I’d never failed to register but this time I put down wrong number to my apt by accident I feel so dumb . Well I got a misdemeanor and informal probation .over this Jan 2017. The company never knew about the conviction and I went on working
New company came and took over and unfortunately that last conviction showed up. And I was no hired on. I wonder why my original conviction never showed up when I got hired. Well I got the results of my application back with new company. In summary I passed everything. I’m wasmt a convicted felon or on parole. Even did not show up on sex offender registry. But my misdemeanor did. Failure to register as a RSO. Everything else i passed. It’s been hard. Looking for jobs. I left in March. I’m trying to keep !y head up and find a job but the stigma behind the seeing RSO most companies won’t even hire me. Thank God I had unemployment for a while but that’s run out. I’m glad I got to vent on here with people in the same!e boat. I always wonder if I would of never gotten that last Misdemeanor if I would still had that job or they would of done a deeper background check. Idk it never came up even said on the application. RSO pass YES. Im not on any SO registry site or on Megan’s law or anything. Well hope someome can give me so!e advise. I just want a normal life a job so I can enjoy !y hobbies online ga!img with !y friends. I don’t wanna become homeless. Even as a veteran there is only so much the VA can help with. Well any suggestions help support would en awesome! Thanks for listening! Hope to hear some positive feed back! Cant wait to get back to work! I have ton of skills. Im in California.