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I woke up this morning with many thoughts on my mind. Many questions with many empty answers. I tell myself on multiple occasions that my children and my wife are protected by me regardless of whatever the circumstances might be today, tomorrow or in the future. I see that they believe me, and I live everyday as if it’s my last. Though I know that I will protect my family at any cost, it is sad that I do not feel protected or believed in by my own neighborhood, city, state, government, country, as I know many feel the same. We live in dire situations in our country today that it seems never-ending. I don’t know what the next year, 5 years or the next 20 years of my life will look like. But though I have doubts and hundreds of questions with empty answers, I still hold on to optimism, persistency, perseverance and among all, faith!
We continue to face things head-on, one day at a time!
Thanks for reading!!!!!!!
Heya gang! I thought I’d start with a positive comment. Cause I’m out world any win is a win. First thank you Janice and staff for all that you do! There is still a long road ahead. 2nd I finished my treatment Tuesday and will be petitioning from a Judge for early termination of Probation soon. Crossing my fingers on it! Zero violations, 50%done. 3rd I just want to say hope is out there. It’s hard. It is. I’ll probably go into detail on a reddit post of a success story if the judge lets me. The success for me isn’t found at legal level but at personal level. I am married, homeowner, have a daughter, have a good job, and starting a landlording business. Now that there is nearly a million of us, people are starting to realize how foobar the system is. Slowly but surely. My boss and neighbors have been supportive. My wife’s family has been supportive. It’s been a big help. I know not everyone has gotten this kind of blessing in life. I just want to say it as an encouragement. Times are a changing. Have the courage to make the 1st moves. Own our mistakes, but be willing to prove we aren’t our worst mistake. I believe in not giving your pearls to the swine and no we shouldn’t have to. But the reality is the world doesn’t know past what the media tells them. We have been given an opportunity, a hard one, to prove society wrong. Honestly that’s what I want to do. And people here and at Narsol encourage me to do that. I think seeing the wins and success stories helped me more than any therapy or group did. Hope is a feeling that needs a little bit of action to get it going.
As of July 1, 2020, my case in state court challenging fees has been stayed pending a decision by the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals in Millard v. Rankin.
I’ve been on the registry since August of 2014 and I’m probably on the younger side. In less than 3 months I’ll be 40; which scares the hell out of me. Looking back at my life I never in a million years thought I’d be in this situation; yet here I am. Do I have remorse for the things that contributed to this? Oh yeah I feel it everyday and I wish I would of handled things better; but I was young and dumb. Since my incarceration and release from the big house, nothing ticks me off more when someone says they feel sorry for me. If I wanted their opinion I would of asked for it; if not don’t upset this German I’ll come after them and be the biggest thorn they’ve ever encountered. Every though my life isn’t perfect today; I wouldn’t change how I feel about myself and our government for everything. I wish you all a blessed 4th of July.
What is the point of getting your record expunged if it doesn’t get us off the registry? I am looking for advice. I have a misdemeanor and I am off probation in November. I was caught in a underage sex sting trying to find an escort off the website backpage. I didn’t have to take classes my fine was only $150. I did 40 days in county jail. My lawyer wants to submit a motion to get off the registry when I do my expungment. I just dont know if it will be worth the money. They gave me 10 years on the registry with no restrictions. I want my life back but I dont want to spend the money if I have no chance of winning. What advise can you guys give me? Do you guys know anyone that won after petitioning to get off the registry? Its funny how many lawyers have called me since everything has been happening against the police. These lawyers want to reopen my case every lawyer said my case is entrapment and that because we have video prof that the police lied we can win. I dont want to reopen my case I just want to know how to get off the registry and should I pay the lawyer to do the motion. Thank you guys for everything this place keeps me some what normal.
California Governor Newsome recently gave a televised commencement address to the Santa Clara University graduating class of 2020. Here is part of what he said:
“As you go out into the world I urge you to lead through collaboration and empathy rather than dominance and aggression. Leadership is about creating conditions where people can live their lives out loud. That is a paradigm of thinking, and I think we are desperate for this moment. No one–no one–stands taller than when he or she bends down on one knee to hep lift other people up.”
He is obviously making inference to the current political events in the country, but it couldn’t be a stronger reference to what people on the registry are pleading for. If Governor Newsome believes this, then he is in the perfect position to prove it and help those of us who are persecuted, denied, oppressed and suffocated by dominance and aggression of the so called justice system.
The cops are claiming they’re being “demonized” and “witch hunted” because of a few “bad apples.” Really?
Well, if they don’t want to be made out to be the “bad guys” and “guilty by association” then why ARE WE being referred to as such?
If the police don’t want their collective to be judged as a whole by the actions of a few, then that argument should apply to us as well.
For most people once you’re labeled a sex offender your life is pretty much over especially for young offenders who haven’t lived long enough to accumulate anything such as houses cars Etc basically an 18 year old sex offender won’t be able to survive without family and friends.
On a more positive note at least you’re not in prison your free to kinda do whatever you want minus the probation parole and sex offender restrictions but hey its better then a prison cell even tho your in a virtual prison cell cut off from society it could be a alot worse.
Hopefully next year in July most registrants in California will be relieved of their duty to register but all one can do is hope because you never know what California might pull out of their ass before then.
Good luck
Sex offender prison camps created during 2020 pandemic.
Japanese internment camps created during WW2.
The government can be as infallible. The pandemic has revealed just how much of a 2nd class citizens registrants are to California, even within the convicted class. That makes us 3rd class citizens.
* Expungement means a lot to convicts who qualify for it, except sex offenders.
* Prop 57 means a lot to convicts who qualify for it, except sex offenders.
* Pandemic orders to release from prison means a lot to convicts who qualify for it, except sex offenders.
* Pandemic orders to stay-at-home means a lot to every citizen, except sex offenders who are required in-person reporting.
There is no rehabilitation going on with the registry. There exists violence, harassment, underemployment, and death due to the registry, but why are all the state governments absolved from any consequences when the attrition occurs to registrants? We are still under custody of the state because we are forced to registry under penalty of law to share our private information for anyone to use, misuse, exploit, or abuse.
It’s terrible to reveal they systematic oppression and dehumanization of the registry. PTSD and PICS… it doesn’t end if it’s always present in your everyday life. There isn’t growth there. Everyday is a fight.
I’m just very thankful to have ACSOL website to help carry my burdens even if it’s mostly bad news. The hope of regaining liberty is slim, but it’s something that Janice and company keeps fighting for and it’s their exposure that will make waves. So thank you, Janice and team, for everything!
@AERO1
**”Hopefully next year in July most registrants in California will be relieved of their duty to register”**
I appreciate your optimism, but I think that a more accurate statement would be “Hopefully next year in July many registrants in California will become eligible to some day be relieved of their duty to register.”
First, we have to hope that no high profile sex attack on a child occurs before then. Then, we have to hope that the new legislative session starting in January doesn’t pass some bill to delay or screw things up. Then, how many registrants already have their 10 years or 20 years completed? I doubt that it is most. So then, how many District Attorneys are going to say “Okay, you seem like a good guy, so I am going to sign off on terminating your need to register”, as opposed to “I don’t think anyone should get off the registry, so you are going to have to get an attorney and go to court and see what luck you have before a judge.”
And if there are hundreds going to court, how long are you going to have to wait to even get a court date?
I just hope that two years from now, at least a significant number of us were able to get off.
I see Millard v. Rankin still hasn’t budged at the 10th. That makes me wonder if they’re having a hard time twisting their way out of finding it to be punishment. What strikes me as particularly strange is the State’s argument was that Judge Matsch overstepped his authority and improperly ruled by casting private citizens as State actors. It seems to me that if the 10th agreed Matsch had misstepped, they’d have remanded it back to District Court by now. That they haven’t done so gives me hope. They may rule against the Cruel & Unusual finding, but I think they’re finding themselves stuck on the punishment angle. Maybe someday they’ll get off their butts and make a decision.
Peter, was your plea a misdemeanor or felony? Which state? Which county? If it’s a felony, get the charged reduced to a misdemeanor and then expunged. Can you petition the court to get off the registry? Or, is your attorney recommending you get a pardon?
Hope everyone is doing as well as they can.
I’ll be moving from Illinois to Kentucky soon. If anybody has any advice about moving while on the registry, I’d really appreciate it. I just don’t want to make some dumb technical mistake and fall victim to this evil scheme. Thanks.
Do to the cronaviruis California is cutting funding to alot of county jobs and obviously law enforcement is on the top of there list.
The first thing every police chief in southern California had to say was “by cutting our funding you are cutting the funding we use to track sexofenders in our community”
Damn really that was there first response
sounds like they need convicted sexofenders more then offenders need them
Wondering if anyone here has a misdemeanor offense and has been approved by the DOJ to possess a firearm. I was convicted of a felony (“wobber”) which was reduced to a misdemeanor several years back. I don’t be believe it matters but the conviction has also been expunged. Anyway, with how crazy this world is getting I’m contemplating submitting a firearm eligibility check to the DOJ and see if I get approved. If they don’t deny me, then I will contemplate the idea of buying a firearm. One thing that has crossed my mind, will submitting the application put me on some sort of list that will get LE all excited because of my offense? Last thing I want is to do something that will result in more frequent visits from LE. if I was to get approved and follow through will buying a firearm, can I expect more visits from LE?
“Our country was founded on a promise … that all of us are created equal. …..
We have a chance — in November and beyond — to give the marginalized, the demonized, the isolated, the oppressed a full share of the American dream.” [from Joe Biden campaign]
Really?? This demonized American (a/k/a me) is skeptical. 😣
Maybe I should write to the Biden campaign and let them know a simple way to get one million+ votes: End the Registry and end Megan’s Law and its derivative laws. Oh, and give me a new passport without a unique identifier!!
Yesterday I heard that some members of the Supreme Court will announce their retirement in the upcoming months. One surprised me; but if he’s off the court I’m in favor of the door smacking his butt on the way out. Hopefully this comes to fruition!!
So true – we can live years, and decades as model citizen, and that still is not enough. Even with the Tiered Registry, you still have to petition and ask a judge to “please remove me from the registry”? You will have to prove that you deserve to be removed. Really? Isn’t 10 years, 20 years, or more enough? Many lost friends, family and jobs over this and made new friends or landed a new job. So, the judge will yet again ask for character letters? Who will provide these? The new friends who know nothing about one’s past? I don’t think so. We are all trying to move on and not disclose our past that should be in the past to new friends or colleagues. We have to fight for automatic removal once the tiered registry goes into effect. It is ridiculous having to prove that we are better people than anyone else in this world, trying to volunteer, taking classes, etc etc. Nobody else has to do this to prove they are good people. The registry shouldn’t exist at all, and even the tiered one is just wrong, but if that is all we have for now, it has to be automatic to be removed.
I was having a conversation with a person outside a coffee shop last week. We were speaking about a mutual friend that had taken his life last year. This friend had committed suicide due to the registry and how it had affected his family, his ability to both provide for them and the community’s opinion of them.
A middle aged women sitting next to us decided to butt in and told us in a very condescending note that, “ Sorry about your friend, but at least he won’t be hurting anybody else.” George let her know, in a very controlled but angry voice, that Sean had been put on the registry for underage sex with a girl he ended up marrying.
This is where it got surreal. The woman actually said the following. “ They don’t put people on that list for those type of things. Only Rapists and child molesters go on the registry. You are lying to protect him.” We got up and left without correcting her. Why bother. Her mind was set.
This is why the registry will never go away. People have no idea what it is and assume it is full of monsters.
In the same way that we are hearing people claim conspiracies, media control and false pandemics, there are enough people that would rather just place every registrant in a box and believe their politicians that are telling them that the registry is protecting them from “Evil Deviants and Perverts”.
You cannot educate or change the thoughts of a person with a closed mind. And the U.S. has that in abundance.
People/ Society need to be educated or we’re just fighting the air ..
@ a.d.a.t.
It’s that lady’s attitude that supporters of the registry revel in knowing they’ve been able help shape the public opinion into. Also when there’s no rso stories in the news there’s still no shortage of crime dramas to substitute and keep up the shock factor. For instance I was surfing channels and stopped to watch who knows what crime drama show some time ago and a scene played out where the investigators did some background checks on a perp and they made it clear to mention “…yeah and he’s a sex offender too…”
Just one of the creative ways they try to counter the actual stats of criminal recidivism rates. Same with online stings, anonymous tips, or whatever other tactic they can use. Anything they can do to prove that narrative right. So naturally there has to be a counter argument, rational people trying to mediate and effect changes.
Also, one of the blatant proofs of relying on shock factor is that no one has ever thought to change the label. No they prefer the gut-punch delivery to slay ANY opposition at the knees. Much of the legislation relies on the same approach.
So tell me Professor is my little buddy Gillian gonna be the next president or will it be Clyde? Wow Will Allen. Now why do I love picking on you. Is it because you make some sense.
Now I did not come in here to beat up (in text) on anyone as I’ve been beat up enough in this type of inducement of the mind. I’m sure many of you all have also. Am I guilty sure I am guilty. Did I pled guilty sure I did, and we wonder why. Isn’t that a ten billion question today when the bible says we are all guilty. Course any curious person would wonder why. Do we all wonder why racisim is here or does the clevage holds on another. One wonders who said cleave unto me. Sure is much of this registry is like a lady and the tramp washed out Disney movie. One wonders who the tramp is….
Do we all many times try to explain or understand, when we don’t even understand or does one’s salt lose its savor. Did someone come to me and say to me if you pled guilty I will talk to the judge and D.A. and make sure things go O.K. trust me. (with a wink in his eyes). Talk about two wrong don’t make a right when I is bent on going to trial and they knew it. I am sure that’s happened to many of you all in these round about circles.
Would that have blown a fuse with authorities or do authorities want to be right in all manners of this type of judgement. Who pokes holes in who’s garments today or who today prowls to upset the balance. Talk about a set-up for public safety in this dysfunction factor of human justice. Were is the variance in this blind Justice or where is the unequeal playing field. Who is the Jacob schemer or the Laban trickster. Talk about totalianism today. Even Gideon didn’t want to rule.
Lets all be general and undersdtanding about all this. Is it a coercive form of judgement or intimidation in much of these ordeals and methods of trickery. Rodney in many ways your dystropia theory that in itself has a certain type of view or should one go with deceptionalism today or who talks to sinners today. One wonders and I believe Jesus talked to sinners didn’t he.
Are these sex sting operations via the internet “Sin Traps”. Sure a bit of coercive trappings, a subject.. such as sin laced sex with an intent. Wow thats a whole book in itself to rewrite. So how many sinned are their in the Old Testament. Yes Jesus Christ paid the sin debt that all should face or is government today have other carnal means. You can’t love your neighbor by using coercion.
Someone talked about Milton Friedman on here and I mention Morgan Freemsn what a difference in my stupid blunder but was it a blunder. In a way it was, and it was all my fault. The only social responsiblity for him is to make money for his shareholders So is that the equvilent to absolute power in that businessman. Freeman on the other hand has his guilt pride in many ways.
When it comes to sex it’s the only thing that people have in common; which is why I believe society is obsessed. Just because a preschooler touches the opposite sex hand doesn’t mean they want it. When teens start dating their hormones are on overdrive and most likely will engage in sexual activity. Do adults have brain fogs when it comes to being young and a teenager? I believe most adults have experimented with sex before they graduated from high school; yet can’t acknowledge the skeletons in their closets. Societal norms change, human behavior does not. Someone can point their finger at me all they want, but there are four pointing back at one judgemental asshat and I could careless.
Go on a great weekend get away come back and facecrook disabled my account over the weekend. Nice. So Janice and team, or anyone for that matter, is there anything I can do about it? It is such BS and I think illegal to do to us. I did not use my real name or shit so I think someone must have turned me in or IDK, has this happened to others on here?
Private companies have the right to ban registered sex offenders–even used to be registered sex offenders. As long as you not a protected class, they can discriminate against your ass. And when I say protected class, Im not talking about a sex offender who happens to be a black Jewish woman. That shit wont fly and social media can still ban you. Facecrook, Snatch chat, Instagram, Uber, they dont want yah, so why bother? You still got Twitter because if they ban sex offenders, they have to ban our president who has all those accusations from dem bitches hanging over his head. Plus all the racial shit. So for now, all yah sex offenders can tweet away, just like the president.