Annual ONLINE ACSOL Conference
October 10-11, 2020
The Alliance for Constitutional Sex Offense Laws
will host the
2020 E.P.I.C. Conference: Empowered People Inspiring Change.
Featured Speakers
The conference will feature Justin Brooks, Director of the California Innocence Project, whose client Brian Banks endured 5 years in prison, a term of parole, and the sex offender registry — for a crime he did not commit.
Brian and Justin’s story is the subject of the recently released movie “Brian Banks.”
Hear and see this inspiring message of hope, perseverance, and victory!
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The cost to attend is $25 per person for both days of the conference.
Limited scholarships are available to those with financial need. To apply, email conference@all4consolaws.org
For questions, please email conference@all4consolaws.org
Other keynote speakers include:
Dr. Alissa Ackerman – A pioneer in the field of restorative and transformative justice for persons affected by the registry (TEDx talk), will discuss this topic as well as minorities on the registry.
Aaron Marcus – An attorney successfully fighting Pennsylvania’s registry law, who has lessons for California and elsewhere.
Janice Bellucci and Chance Oberstein – ACSOL’s leaders and tenacious advocates for registrants and their loved ones who will discuss the Tiered Registry Law that becomes effective in 2021.
Conference Info
Schedule
A tentative full conference schedule is as follows (subject to change):
| Time | Topic | Speaker/Panelists |
Saturday, October 10, 2020 |
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| 9:30 a.m. – 9:55 a.m. | Welcome and Orientation | Chance Oberstein (ACSOL President) Janice Bellucci (ACSOL Executive Director) |
| 10:00 a.m. – 10:55 a.m. | Plenary Session: Restorative/Transformative Justice, and Minorities on the Registry | Alissa Ackerman, Ph.D. |
| 11:00 a.m. – 11:55 a.m. | Breakout Sessions (choose one) | |
| Domestic and International Travel | Chance Oberstein (ACSOL President) Paul Rigney (RTAG – Registrant Travel Action Group) |
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| Veterans and the Registry | Emily Horowitz, Ph.D. (ACSOL Board member) Shawn Rolfe |
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| 12:00 p.m. – 12:55 p.m. | Plenary Session: California’s Tiered Registry | Janice Bellucci (ACSOL Executive Director) Chance Oberstein (ACSOL President) |
| 1:00 p.m. – 1:55 p.m. | Breakout Sessions (choose one) | |
| “All Except For…” The Exclusion of Registrants from Criminal Justice Reform Efforts | Catherine Carpenter (ACSOL Board Member) |
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| LBGTQ Issues | Marty Weiss Eric Borgerson |
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| 2:00 p.m. – 2:55 p.m. | Breakout Sessions (choose one) | |
| Modifying Conditions of Parole, Probation, and Supervised Release | Alex Landon (ACSOL Board Member) |
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| Effective Advocacy: Making a Difference at the Local, State, and National Levels | Janice Bellucci (ACSOL Executive Director) Roger Hunnicutt (Foundation Board Member) |
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| 3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. | Open Discussion and Feedback | Alex Gittinger, Moderator (Foundation Board Member) |
Sunday, October 11, 2020 |
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| 9:30 a.m. – 9:55 a.m. | Welcome and Orientation | Chance Oberstein (ACSOL President) Janice Bellucci (ACSOL Executive Director) |
| 10:00 a.m. – 10:55 a.m. | Plenary Session: Legal Challenges to Pennsylvania’s Sex Offender Registry | Aaron Marcus (Public Defender, PA Defender Association) |
| 11:00 a.m. – 11:55 a.m. | Breakout Sessions (choose one) | |
| Family Issues and How to Cope | Sherri Harlow (ASCOL Board Member) Amber Vlangas (Executive Director, Restorative Action Alliance) |
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| Becoming Empowered: Grassroots Activism and Public Engagement | Roger Hunnicutt (Foundation Board member) Guy Hamilton-Smith (ACSOL Board member) Robert Curtis Marty Weiss |
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| 12:00 p.m. – 12:55 p.m. | Plenary Session: Wrongful Convictions in California | Justin Brooks Professor, Cal. Western School of Law Director, California Innocence Project Director, Instituto Latinoamericano de Derecho y Justicia |
| 1:00 p.m. – 1:55 p.m. | Breakout Sessions (choose one) | |
| Domestic and International Travel | Chance Oberstein (ACSOL President) Paul Rigney (RTAG – Registrant Travel Action Group) |
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| Stigma and the Registry | Ilan Meyer, Ph.D. Williams Distinguished Senior Scholar at the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law |
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| 2:00 p.m. – 2:55 p.m. | Breakout Sessions (choose one) | |
| Becoming Empowered: Disclosing to Family and Friends | Roger Hunnicutt (Foundation Board member) JoEllen Wigginton, Ph.D. (Foundation Board member) Kathleen Garner (Foundation Board member) Michael Madonia (Foundation Board member) |
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| Using Social Media | Amber Vlangas (Executive Director, Restorative Action Alliance) Guy Hamilton-Smith (ACSOL Board Member) Marty Weiss |
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| 3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. | Happy Hour with Alex: Relaxed Open Discussion and Feedback | Alex Gittinger, Moderator (Foundation Board Member) |
Contact
For questions, please email: conference@all4consolaws.org