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@David. How would one judge conduct or behavior/ or should we also judge anothers conduct. How would you judge a persons conduct since you are on the registry. Which is more valid. We can all talk about this registry as being a bit unjust but what is just. Should we all go back to Job and see who allowed Satan to do these things to poor old job or are authorities just as guilty in many of these encounters
Now Janice is presenting a forum for us to rationalize or to make common sense out of much of this registry. Should we all call a witch doctor as David said to the alvin and the chipmunks or where is reasoning today in true justice in a court of law. Sure we welcome all views isn’t that what reasoning is all about.
Yeah, they never returned my revoked passport to me either. (I have to say, this shiz gets really annoying, endless jumping-through-hops …… endlessly trying to understand all the f”ed up rules and regulations that even the LEOs and government bureaucrats themselves don’t know or understand. These jack-hole politicians just keep making more and more restrictions, each year, whether their new rules make any sense or not. It’s tiring and disheartening. Seriously, when does this shiz end?? Just trying to o keep up with all this shiz IS PUNISHMENT!! 😒)
Wow our country has gone off the rails. Where was the outrage of young girls dressing up for beauty pageants in the 1990’s? What about TLC’s show I Am Jazz and the journey of being a transgender teen? What about the young models in your Sunday paper? What about the tv shows that are sexual in nature? https://news.yahoo.com/netflix-indicted-texas-over-lewd-122108404.html
This is how law enforcement thinks of us even after 34 years:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18PV0E7uEWs
Watch the video please.
How cheap is cheap or who’s king? while we all make mistakes, is it kind of living or king of living one’s lifestyle. Sure Brandon’s got a point with this sex thing as any newspaper reporters would tell you “sex sells”. When I first got involved in all this I knew a little something about Janices group and what her and chance and her little team at the time were striving to accomplish, I even read some of the many comments and viewpoints from Janices’ area from you all.
Sure we can talk about women blunders, men blunders, government blunders, but who is blundering with truth or true understanding or the wisdom or lack of wisdom. Are 80% of these registry ordeals vain compensation for government to hold one in this nightmarish type of enslavement?
Is that child damage to your health that was enticing one via a computer when you didn’t even know if it was a real time situation or a close encounter. Were you the pawn or bounty for the bounty hunter during these ordeals that are so vain that one would have to understand the law of physic’s backwards or does one just jump to Revelations and skip the parts of In the beginning.
Is Divine providence some lost in space odyssey or doctrines and principal usage. Is the harlot in many of these ordeals the helper or the jezzabelle queen to ensnare like Deliaha did to Sampson. If forgiveness is not bless than what is? I am sure Janice know’s government needs correcting in many ways with this sex ordeal that is enslaving many.
Kind of surprised that I can’t find anything about the just ended ACSOL Conference here on the website. Didn’t anyone else watch it?
I thought most of the sessions and speakers were very good, but it just can’t compare with the in-person conference and that great Chinese dinner!
I hope the next one is in-person, with maybe added on Zoom screens and cameras for those unable to travel to LA.
Did ASCOL file a comment on the Proposed DOJ rule?
@ David…Thank you, David, for the link to the ACSOL comments of SORNA proposed changes. I have downloaded the PDF, and what I have read so far, what ACSOL has done for us (TFR) is great. It reads like a legal brief submitted in a court case. 🙂 I pray that the submitted document, along with all the comments, will induce the DOJ to rethink and change the wording of their proposed changes. I like it…”no compelling federal interest in State law enforcement issues.” (Forgive my paraphrasing.) Peace be with you all.
General question to the legal savvy posters here:
I committed a “violation of special conditions” back in 2008. The condition had nothing to do with my initial sex crime. Can/should I fight it?
@ Janice
I just received a scheduled polygraph for this November. I’m currently on supervised release. Do conducting polys during this Pandemic violate anything in Los Angeles, CA?
LAPD doing “compliance checks” now.
Today, October 16, 2020, I had to appear in court for my certificate of rehabilitation hearing. The judge granted it. I am finally relieved of my duty to register. My nightmare is finally over. Thank you Chance, for your hard work, support and guidance through this process.
I’ve read some comments over the years about what would happen once someone is off the registry. Would they just move on and forget about everyone else? I’m here to say, no. Not for me. I will continue to read what ACSOL posts. I will continue to respond to calls to action such as calling/writing to Sacramento. I will also be making donations.
God bless you Janice and Chance and thank you for everything you do for our community.
When will the new federal guidelines go into effect, and are we to be notified?
Big time 1 amendment violation (H . Res . 1154 ) just in case this may have slipped by some .
Passport saga update…
After two weeks, I finally got the return phone call from the passport center. I was told that I could turn in my passport by returning it with my new application. This way I could just check the box stating such on the application. The passport center will then take care of returning the passport to the proper agency when they get it.
About returning my passport to me…
The general rule is that revoked passports are not returned. But, if there are ‘live’ visa or other documents in the passport (like my work visa and entry permit) they are permitted to send notice to the revoking agency and then to punch holes and return the revoked passport. My visa and entry permit have about 5 weeks remaining on them, so hopefully they’ll still be ‘live’ when my new passport is processed and I get them back.
Why did I get a regular passport when I renewed, trying to get a marked one? Apparently the passport center does not know that a person is required to have the marking until a current passport is revoked OR until the Angel Watch office notifies them. Looks like they’re still working on getting all the names in the system.
It is possible to send you passport in early for renewal to get a marked passport, but you have to include a letter requesting it, making it clear that you need an IML compliant passport.
Why am I paying again?
No choice – since my case had not yet been processed they sent me a regular one. Now I get to pay again and there doesn’t appear to be anything to do about it on their side. Perhaps going to court, but it’s not really worth it for $110.
That’s it for now. I’ll report back again when I either get my new, marked, passport or hear from them with problems. Hope this helps someone else.
The Annual “Patch” Halloween Ritual:
This year, San Francisco has been added to those “Patch” communities who have allied themselves with the spooky ignoramuses of unreason and cruelty that are visited upon us each Halloween.
My response to them:
“This re-publishing of the LOATHESOME “sex offender registry” is deeply irresponsible, paranoid, ignorant and corrosive of society. The Registry has been shown by those with real expertise to play no role in preventing sex offenses. The people on it have had their lives hopelessly blighted by this cynical end-run around constitutional prohibitions on ex-post facto punishment, nor has the Registry played any useful role in preventing such abuses during Halloween if, for no other reason, than there simply is no such abuse centered around, or facilitated by, Halloween.
Patch, and its contributors, are going to look back on the role they played in fomenting this hysteria with deserved, and deep, shame.”
Please add your voices by going to https://patch.com/california/san-francisco/698-sex-offenders-san-francisco-2020-safety-map#reply_block_article_nid=29022231
The “Patch” has also spread its propaganda in Fairfield, CT. The article’s “strength” is the wild hypocrisy that it propels into society. According to the article, “Fall is a good time to take an inventory of who is living in your neighborhood.” And it’s evidently important to know the specific eight Registrants that live in Fairfield. Yet, the article clearly points out that, “Registries play a limited role in preventing child sexual abuse and stress that most perpetrators are known to the child.” In fact, the article is 203 words in length, yet it spends 112 words (55%) demonstrating the severe limitations of the registry. Darn good thing those eight Registrants were put on full blast. What a joke.
😡 [a bitter laugh] 🤣
I just heard someone in an NPR episode ask the following: “When someone lies one time, do we call that person a liar …. or do they have to lie multiple times?”
Ask anyone ever convicted of a sexual offense, even several decades ago, and we can answer that question! 😡 [Hint: That person is a liar everyday, all the time, and that is the first thing everyone should know about them for the rest of their life!]
Seriously, can’t we just start defining everyone by the worst thing they ever did in their entire life? And can’t it just be tattooed on their forehead? So we can see right up front: Liar, Embezzler, Animal Abuser, DUI Driver, etc??
It would just make life so much more interesting if you saw right up front everyone’s status!
I thought it was only Florida that had an eternal registry, and then I saw this article about a priest who died several years ago but was just added to their local diocesan list (and without any opportunity to defend himself.)
https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Late-priest-added-to-Albany-diocese-s-offenders-15653901.php
Seriously, I don’t understand the point of adding his name to this list. (Is it so other potential victims can come forward and seek compensation?)
Great info on the California propositions who’s supporting, who’s against.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.mercurynews.com/2020/10/18/californias-12-ballot-propositions-explained-bbb/amp/
David we can’t even see in front of your status and whats with the purple cornstalk. Is that something of the boyscout cornstalk council or did you get a new merit badge for halloween. We all try to make since out of this and your playing fairy god mother or the grench that stole Halloweeen. …and put on a better habit. I’m sure we could all use a face lift.
IBM withdrawals from the facial recognition market: The American computer giant declares itself opposed “to the use of any technology for purposes of mass surveillance, racial profiling, violations of human rights and freedoms”.
@Janice Bellucci Hello, Everyone its been awhile since I posted although I visit daily to read the news and comments.. I was thinking this morning and decided to email Kamala Harris figured it couldn’t hurt to try I copy and pasted the email I sent and Janice I pray that you hear from her office about this, If everyone of us was to email Our law makers everyday could you imagine the reactions if Kamala’s office received thousands of emails asking for help on this as well as other lawmakers receiving the same thousands we should organize and have a Email party and ask all groups that are fighting to restore the rights we are entitled to we can recruit those who want to join and when we have enough send them daily until we hear back.. this can create alot of talk’…. here is the email that I sent thanks everyone lets keep fighting”’
My name is Richard and I am writing you today to reach out and help over 800,000 people who have been placed on the Sex offender registry for various crimes of sexual nature most of these crime’s are prosecuted by a state court and the courts sentence the offender’s The United States Constitution protects the people from unjust laws Mrs Harris I ask that you and your administration Take a look into Sorna and the restrictions it places on Registrants and Family members I often visit the web site of a great news source that was created by Janice Bellucci, to help people like myself Registrants to stay up to date on new laws around the country (because they change state to state for us) and being ignorant to the laws is no excuse.. (most lawyers would have this problem) the URL link is https://all4consolaws.org/ and Janice or staff would be glad to talk with you and share thoughts and they are always up to date on court decisions as well as new filings please feel free to Contact them, Thank you, for giving me the time of reading this. I pray that your office will investigate this unjust law. Sincerely Richard Fasching
I recently had my annual in Lake County CA. I must say they had it very well set up to protect everyone from the virus. I had the choice to stay outside at a table or go into an empty room to fill out my forms. Masks were mandatory. They didn’t ask for any ID or any other documents from me so they couldn’t contaminate my documents. They gave me my own new black ink finger pad to put my thumb print on my signed documents and then let me keep the ink pad. They give everyone an appointment (as always), so I never do see any other registrant during my appointment. The whole process took about 25 minutes this time. I have to give Lake County Sheriffs an A on protecting the registrants from the virus.
Just making a comment regarding the recent virtual Conference event. I missed some of the time- slot events. I asked and was advised the recording links would be emailed sometime that week. That was last week….. and its now the end of another week.
Hoping for the information soon; …. anxious to see the other Speakers, etc. Thanks