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Made by minors, shared by many minors (some young adults) of both genders in Denmark. Interesting comments.
1,000 Danish youths face charges for sharing 15-year-olds’ sex videos
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/01/danish-police-charge-1000-youths-for-sharing-underage-sex-video/
“Tulare County inmate attacked, bit fellow inmate” Except that that “fellow inmate” was an elderly, civilly-detained Hosprisoner from Coalinga who was in the Visalia County Jail for a local court appearance. http://www.visaliatimesdelta.com/story/news/2018/01/08/tulare-county-inmate-attacked-bit-fellow-inmate/1012886001/
Coalinga State Hospital: I called the administration this morning and asked when the Detainees’ rights to make and receive phone calls would be restored. I was told by a staffer that they have no idea when that would be. One thing they accomplish by doing this is preventing Detainees from calling the press to report on the “near-riot” conditions said to exist there by the local media. My guess is that it is less of a riot and more of a widespread refusal to “program,” (along with a few broken windows and some garbage thrown about) as the staff likes to call it. Mike St. Martin, a particular annoyance to them, and who is a main conduit for information coming out of CSH, is unable to embarrass them when the phones are cut-off. It’s entirely conceivable that he is the main reason for their cutting off the phones. Attorneys trying to call in are no more successful than the rest of us.
Hello everyone,
I am currently on parole in Kern County, but I am in the process of having my parole moved to Sacramento County, and more specifically around the Galt and Lodi portion of Sacramento County. I’m just wondering if anyone here has dealt with Sacramento County while on Parole and if you have any thoughts or advice.
Kern County has been backward and difficult for the last few years, and even my Parole officer is hopeful that things will be better in Sacramento. Here’s to hoping.
Thanks
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RAPTOR IDENTIFICATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM IN USE IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
To those registrants who have school aged children. Make sure you know what your local laws say about registrants on school campuses. For example, some jurisdictions require you to have a child enrolled in a school AND written permission from the school principle in order to be on campus – even if you’re only dropping off or picking up. Some schools are now utilizing the Raptor Identification Management system. This system would require any school visitors to scan a government issued ID into their computer. The computer then extracts the name and photo and cross references it with the national database of sex offenders, as well as certain other databases depending on how the school set up the system. If it finds a match to the name or photo it alerts the operator and potentially even law enforcement. This is obviously a time and date stamp that puts you on school grounds. I’ve read posts on here with certain individuals saying that nothing will stop them from being involved with their child’s education – I get it. But ask yourself, is it worth the risk? I’m sure someone is making a lot of money for developing this system which thrives off of fear mongering and the well known public hysteria regarding sex offenders. For more info you can search raptortech.com
“As small riots rage at Coalinga State Hospital, details begin to emerge”
http://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/article195015749.html
“Coalinga State Hospital locked down in sex offender dispute”
What the hospital is doing is blaming it all on “child pornography.” Janice is quoted in this piece.
http://abc30.com/coalinga-state-hospital-locked-down-in-sex-offender-dispute/2954647/
Maybe more differences than similarities to RC laws (and it’s a year old) but I sure like his conclusion. Maybe he could speak at the National conference?! 🙂
“When our governing officials dismiss due process as mere semantics, when they exercise powers they don’t have and ignore duties they actually bear, and when we let them get away with it, we have ceased to be our own rulers.”
http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2017/01/18093/
Immigrants in Cali have more rights than we do. This is sad.
Not only that, but criminal illegal aliens have more rights and more legal resources at the expense of our tax dollars then we have…Then they get convicted, deported and return while never being subjected to parole or probation or a hit list.
So much for getting out of these miserable states and retiring in Belize. Some poor old sod was extradited back to the U.S. for not de-registering when he left his home state to move to Belize, which they determined was actually an illegal move by the Gooberment. But, now he’s been civilly committed indefinitely while serving a bogus term and the fourth circuit claims that that’s legal even though the charge that got him committed was determined illegal. Try to wrap your head around this one.
http://reason.com/blog/2018/01/17/federal-appeals-court-approves-continued
I tried to call Mike St. Martin at CSH today having understood that their phone service would be restored in the afternoon. A staff member answered the phone, something which has never happened before as these are phones in the residential units that have only ever been answered by Detainees. He asked my name and then said that, unless I was a lawyer, I would not be able to speak with patients. Here is CBS coverage of the suspension of Detainee’s rights today: [note that this whole situation has been re-framed by CSH as an anti-porn initiative] “Psychiatric hospital locked down after crackdown on “porn epidemic” https://www.cbsnews.com/news/coalinga-state-hospital-patients-protest-over-crackdown-on-porn-epidemic/
Lot of Mikes all a sudden…LOL
AJ, the final doc that I am going to file is in your email bro..Check her out…..I am filing this next Tue or Wed…I think we frigging nailed it. Anyone want to check out one of the best damn opposition brief you have ever seen? It’s up until Friday…
https://gofile.io/?c=yaNOU0
Comments welcome…….
I was invited to dinner at some neighbor’s last week. It was a wonderful meal in a beautifully restored, hilltop Victorian with a wrap-around view of the City. Near the end of the evening, over brandy, the hostess turned to me with excitement and asked if I didn’t think that Oprah would make a wonderful President. I’m afraid that she was very crestfallen at my obviously less-than-enthusiastic facial response to the prospect of an Oprah-for-President movement. The scope of what would be so wrong about such an initiative was impossible for me to reduce to a one-sentence response so I, less than skillfully, offered “Celebrities should never run for President. And I don’t like Oprah at all.” My hostess appeared deeply wounded at my shocking admission that I didn’t like, indeed LOVE, Oprah Winfrey with an enthusiasm generally reserved for the most saintly who walk the Earth. Oprah had scared the bejeezus out of me in the late 1980s because she had the obvious ability to charm even people I thought reasonably intelligent while embracing fairy tales, such as the Satanic Ritual Abuse fantasies, and all of the horrors it visited upon innocent people, as reality. I can’t tell you how many times I winced when someone would say to me “I LIKE Oprah!” The first time was in 1988 when my gay barber said it while Oprah played in the background in his second-floor shop in the Castro. It was then that I knew America was in trouble, that it was not just a problem with Christian conservatives but with the great, gooey expanses on the left, as well. Magical thinking is NOT our friend.
“Oprah Winfrey Helped Create Our American Fantasyland”
https://slate.com/health-and-science/2018/01/oprah-winfrey-helped-create-our-irrational-pseudoscientific-american-fantasyland.html
There is a new CA law on the books that can help the innocent,
Man’s name cleared based on new evidence and new California law –
Penal Code section 1473.7, which allows one who is no longer incarcerated or restrained to pursue a motion to vacate when that person provides “newly discovered evidence of actual innocence … that requires vacation of the conviction or sentence as a matter of law or in the interest of justice.
http://www.lakeconews.com/index.php/news/54068-regional-man-s-name-cleared-based-on-new-evidence-and-new-california-law
The response to my complaint…. check it out….
https://gofile.io/?c=TDOjEP After reading it more they have hit on every issue.
We have gone from a “high-trust” to a “low-trust” country in the space of fifty-or-so years. For some reason, Americans have gradually lost all faith in the very quality that made this country so spectacular in the first place. Kind of like how Washington once decided that they had to virtually outlaw communism because they didn’t recognize that communism could never compete for the hearts-and-minds of America. They lost their faith and their trust. I see that Reason’s Nick Gillespie weighs in here on low-versus-high trust:
http://reason.com/blog/2016/05/23/this-used-to-be-a-helluva-high-trust-cou
I’m a bit behind…
For the motion to dismiss from the US AG, can’t you respond to most of them that:
The US AG’s reliance on cases like Smith V Doe and Con DPS V Doe, as well as other cases cited that, after researching, also reference those same SCOTUS cases, no longer benefits from stare decisis because those decisions all clearly relied on false and unsubstantiated evidence from McKune v. Lile, 536 U.S. 24,33 (2002) supplied by the Solicitor General that recidivism rates for sex offenders were “frightening and high” as well as recidivism being “as high as 80 percent”. As the original complaint stated, that evidence was thoroughly debunked by Ira Mark Ellman in his research paper titled “”FRIGHTENING AND HIGH”: THE SUPREME COURT’S CRUCIAL MISTAKE ABOUT SEX CRIME STATISTICS” (2015). Those statements infected hundreds of cases, and perhaps thousands of laws across the country. While the US Constitution should not stand in the way of legislators trying to protect the public from a clear and imminent threat to its people with a number so frightening as “80 percent”, that is a far cry from the average of all valid government and other respected studies that show a recidivism between 1% and 15% and lower than any other crime than murder. Even SCOTUS, in its majority comments in Packingham v. North Carolina (2017) declared “the troubling fact that the law imposes severe restrictions on persons who already have served their sentence and are no longer subject to the supervision of the criminal justice system,” and observed that this fact is “not an issue before the Court.” This cases serves to make it an issue before the court using the real facts and statistics, most of which come from the US government or it’s States own research.
Something like that for a start. Then you may also hit on the individual points the AG tried to make.
The battle for the right to be forgotten…
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-18/google-braced-for-england-s-first-right-to-be-forgotten-trial
Please moderator, let us have some leeway on at least short little snippets like these in order to get feedback from others on here. This site and the people on here have been a tremendous resource and this will effect each and every one of the people on this site and on the registry…I totally understand that only short arguments and facts of law should be presented on your forum but a whole lot of people on here are very interested and deeply connected to what I am doing. THANK YOU……
I agree with you Mike R, and at the moderators request we are continuing this discussion privately by email and will try to keep public updates or questions short or linked offsite.
Just an FYI:
Last month someone asked about the TSA pre-check enrollment and if any RC has been approved. I went ahead and applied for it today and was approved. I only needed to show my ID and birth certificate, and they took my live scan fingerprint. I don’t think the RC status pops up because the lady showed no change in expression and was very friendly.
My record was expunged 4.5 years ago and I’ve never been on the website, but I don’t think that matters.They just want to make sure you’re a U.S. citizen and don’t have either a permanent or interim disqualifying conviction in the last 5 years. You can find that info here: https://www.tsa.gov/Disqualifying-Offenses-Factors
“What innocence she had, we’ve now had to have a conversation that kinda takes that away and she’s ten.” Someday, this era will be looked back upon as the age in which people said and believed absurd and ridiculous things. ____________ “Police Receive Hundreds of Complaints About Pictures on Sex Offender’s Flickr Account” Of course, none of them are “porn” (so far, but methinks that there are some bills looming on the horizon that could magically transform them) and the issue is the fact that some Registrants, operating entirely within the law, have photographed random kids in public settings and then posted them on the web. The idea behind the inevitable legislation will be that the status of the person exercising their rights will determine IF they possess those rights. https://www.necn.com/news/new-england/Parents-on-Alert–470007583.html Also, there’s this: “Police: Reports of sex offender taking photos under review, but no laws broken
Augusta police said Wednesday that they’re investigating complaints from outraged parents but have found no crimes to have occurred.” https://www.centralmaine.com/2018/01/17/police-reports-of-sex-offender-taking-photos-under-review-but-no-laws-broken/
Yeah you know what? I am just going to respond to USAG and keep them in the fight. This makes for a tougher fight, but I’ll just press ahead. I think I can overcome everything they threw out there.
Just when you thought we’d heard about all the abuses and tricks at NSA: Forget About Siri and Alexa — When It Comes to Voice Identification, the “NSA Reigns Supreme” (https://theintercept.com/2018/01/19/voice-recognition-technology-nsa/) God Bless Edward Snowden! (Now it’s clear how they were able to ID “Jihadi John” of ISIS fame.)
In other news, for those who think fingerprint biometrics to be a safet way to keep things protected, I refer you to a MN SC decision this past week: State v Diamond (https://cases.justia.com/minnesota/supreme-court/2018-a15-2075.pdf?ts=1516206714). In it, MN SC ruled that forced taking of one’s fingerprint to unlock an encrypted cellphone is not self-incrimination. I can see the logic (it’s just another type of “key” in your possession), but it’s still worrisome.