MN: Third COVID death at Moose Lake sex offender facility

A client housed in a Minnesota sex offender treatment facility has died from COVID-19, state officials said Monday. Friday’s death at the Moose Lake facility is the third COVID-related fatality in the Minnesota Sex Offender Program (MSOP) since the pandemic surfaced early last year in Minnesota. “We mourn his passing and extend our deepest sympathy to those who loved him and called him friend,” according to a statement from Human Services Commissioner Jodi Harpstead, whose agency runs the program. “The toll the pandemic continues to take in human lives is…

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ACSOL Phone Meeting Jan 16

Please join ACSOL Executive Director and civil rights attorney Janice Bellucci as well as ACSOL President and criminal defense attorney Chance Oberstein for our next phone meeting.  The meeting will be held on Saturday, January 16, beginning at 10 a.m. Pacific time and will last at least two hours. This meeting will be recorded and then posted  as an audio recording. A link to the recording will be at the top of our pages. Discussion topics will include: the upcoming Tiered Registry proposed SORNA regulations in-person registration during the COVID-19…

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