[dcist.com – 4/20/21] Legislation touted as “ban the box” for rental housing passed the Montgomery County Council on Tuesday, with sponsors saying the bill will make it easier for individuals experiencing homelessness to find a place to live. … But the bill allows landlords to consider a tenant’s sex offender registry status in addition to any sex offense arrests or convictions. Read the full article Look for sex bills and laws in your state
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Jury is out — no matter the verdict, Congress must act
[cnn.com – 4/19/21] Van Jones is an attorney who has spent 25 years working for police accountability and criminal justice reform. (CNN) -America is bracing for a verdict. … The time has come for us to pressure our US senators to take up the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act. Authored by Rep. Karen Bass of California, the act has already passed the US House of Representatives. It just needs a debate and a vote in the US Senate. By making the call, we can ask our senators to…
Read MoreUK: Jail for Fife woman who extorted cash from innocent man in sex offender smear campaign
[thecourier.co.uk – 4/19/21] A woman who threatened to brand an innocent man a sex offender to extort thousands of pounds and a TV set has been jailed for more than two and a half years. Sharon McDonald targeted the man on numerous occasions over a ten-month period. Previously at Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court, McDonald admitted extorting £2,700 and the electrical equipment out of her target. On Monday, Sheriff William Gilchrist sentenced McDonald to 31 months in prison. McDonald, who had already been remanded in custody since before Christmas, had her sentence…
Read MoreOH: Does Sentencing Fit the Crime? Ohio Sex Offense Charges and Rates of Recidivism
[blogs.lawyers.com – 4/17/21] There is little doubt that our society is unforgiving when it comes to sex crimes, especially those involving children. The physical, emotional, and psychological toll sexual abuse takes on its victims cannot be overstated. Nevertheless, not everyone agrees on the appropriate way to punish sex crimes. In particular, the relatively low rates of recidivism among sex offenders have led some to question, including sex crimes lawyers in Dayton and state-wide, whether we should rethink our approach to sentencing and put a greater emphasis on treatment. Penalties for…
Read MoreThe Dobbs Wire: Flashback to 1996
[The Dobbs Wire (@TheDobbsWire) / Twitter – 4/19/21] A Massachusetts father writes about his young son — an important matter requiring a trip to the police station. It’s a powerful, poignant story that the Chicago Tribune published on Dec. 1, 1996. The father inquires, “What will be done with this information?” He asked that question shortly after the Massachusetts sex offense registry got rolling, on Oct. 1, 1996. Massachusetts was the last of the states to create an official blacklist. This year marks 25 years that every state has had…
Read MoreACSOL Phone Meeting May 15
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, May 15, 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 within 24 hours. A link to the recording will be at the top of our pages. Dial-in number: 1-712-770-8055 Conference Code: 983459 If you have problems calling this phone…
Read MoreCanada: What a new report reveals about Manitoba sex offenders and victims
[winnipeg.ctvnews.ca – 4/16/21] WINNIPEG — A Manitoba committee tasked with determining if the public needs to be notified about a sex offender has released a report giving the province a look at the offenders and the victims involved. The Community Notification Advisory Committee (CNAC) is a group of representatives from Manitoba Justice, corrections and Manitoba police agencies, along with medical or therapeutic practitioners and civilian members. The committee was created in 1995 to review sex offender cases referred to it by police agencies, and recommend if the public should be…
Read MoreAmerican Sex Offender Policy Condemned as Human Rights Violation Before the United Nations
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Read MoreCA: 57 Arrested In San Joaquin County Child Sex Predator Operation
[sacramento.cbslocal.com – 4/17/21] SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY (CBS13) – Dozens of people were arrested as part of a child sex predator sting throughout San Joaquin County over the last week. In total, 57 people were arrested and 37 were cited over a five-day span from April 12-16. The San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Office said the operation “targeted out-of-compliance sex offenders and persons on probation or parole for sex crimes, sex traffickers, prostitution, pimping, and pandering.” Over 100 total officials from all assisting organizations were stationed throughout the county and made contact…
Read MoreUK: Anger as Tory MPs vote against register for stalkers and domestic abusers
[theguardian.com – 4/16/21] The government is facing growing anger after voting against putting serial stalkers and domestic abusers on a national register, despite briefing they were likely to support the measures following the death of Sarah Everard. Conservative MPs voted against amendments to the domestic abuse bill on Thursday that would have placed serial domestic abusers and stalkers on the current Violent and Sex Offender Register (Visor). MPs also voted down House of Lords-supported amendments that would have given family court judges training on sexual abuse and provided greater protection…
Read MoreUK: Man who stabbed his neighbour to death in horrific case of mistaken identity where he wrongly believed he was a sex offender is detained indefinitely in hospital
[dailymail.co.uk – 4/16/21] A man who stabbed his neighbour to death in an horrific case of mistaken identity has been detained indefinitely in hospital. Richard Matthews killed Paul Wells after wrongly believing he was a sex offender who raped him as a child, Bristol Crown Court heard today. The court was told how Matthews was convinced he was the victim of a child abuse ring aged 10 and accused Wells of historical abuse when he moved in next door to him in Highbridge, Somerset. Today, the defendant, 45, was sentenced…
Read MoreNE: Vigilante won’t fight murder charge for shooting sex offender 7 times
[omaha.com – 4/16/21] Raising a 9 mm semiautomatic rifle, James Fairbanks riddled Mattieo Condoluci with seven shots, bullets entering Condoluci’s back and chest. One bullet pierced Condoluci’s forehead, near his temple. All after Condoluci, a convicted sex offender, answered his door near 43rd and Pinkney Streets in May 2020. Yet Fairbanks and his attorney, Steve Lefler, contemplated a self-defense claim up until minutes before the 44-year-old Omaha man pleaded no contest Thursday to second-degree murder and a gun charge. They said Condoluci had charged the armed Fairbanks after he showed…
Read MoreACSOL Announces 2021 Conference Schedule, Speakers
ACSOL is proud to announce that distinguished keynote speakers — Jill Levenson, and Miriam Aukerman — have agreed to speak at this year’s conference on Friday, September 17, and Saturday, September 18. In addition, the conference will feature presentations by Chance Oberstein, Janice Bellucci and Richard Gladden regarding Smith v. Doe, the Tiered Registry Law as well as domestic and international travel. In addition to these presentations, the conference will include panels on a variety of topics important to registrants and their families such as employment options and opportunities, housing…
Read MoreCenter for Employment Opportunities puts you to work while working with you to find full time employment
[Center for Employment Opportunities – ceoworks.org] Are you or a loved one currently on parole or probation? Are they experiencing hardships in finding employment? Center for Employment Opportunities is a nationwide non-profit Workforce Development organization that puts you to work while we work with you to find full time employment. Many of our offices are equipped to work with individuals who are required to register and have been successful in connecting them with employers in the region. To become a participant of our work crews, please contact your case manager or parole…
Read MoreNCRJ.org Webinar: A conversation about the re-emergence of political and moral panics about child sexual abuse and trafficking
[NCRJ.org] Join Gira Grant and Nathan for a conversation about the re-emergence of political and moral panics about child sexual abuse and trafficking. How are QAnon-generated myths of pedophile cannibal rings related to the (long-debunked) daycare and satanic panics of the 1980s and 1990s? How are they different? What might we do about them? Judith Levine will moderate. Debbie Nathan was among the first journalists to expose the daycare and “satanic abuse” panics of the 80s/90s; her book Satan’s Silence: Ritual Abuse and the Making of a Modern American Witch…
Read MoreAction Alert for CA: Oppose CDCR Regulations That Exclude Registrants From Resentencing Opportunities
[ACSOL] The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) has issued proposed regulations which exclude most registrants from resentencing opportunities. Comments upon the proposed regulations can be submitted to CDCR before or on May 7, 2021. In addition, CDCR will conduct a public hearing on May 7 at 10 a.m. regarding the proposed regulations. “CDCR is repeating the same mistake it made when it issued its Proposition 57 regulations, that is, the agency is excluding registrants from the benefits of legislation,” stated ACSOL Executive Director Janice Bellucci. “We must strongly…
Read MoreCA: El Cajon neighbors outraged over placement of 10 registered sex offenders together in one house
[cbs8.com – 4/15/21] Neighbors in El Cajon are livid, after learning that ten registered sex offenders are now living together in one house in their kid-friendly community. Calling it “a living nightmare,” these parents say they are now fearful for their children’s safety, and are demanding answers from the state. According to California’s Megan’s Law website, the crimes these registered sex offenders living here are convicted of range from sodomy with a minor under age 18, to lewd and lascivious acts on a child under 14. Dozens of El Cajon…
Read More“The Book” on registration laws becoming available for purchase
[floridaactioncommittee.org – 4/16/21] Professors Wayne Logan (Florida State University School of Law) and JJ Prescott (University of Michigan School of Law) have edited the textbook on sex offense registration laws, literally. The two professors, along with other professionals; Andrew J. Harris, Scott M. Walfield, Alissa R. Ackerman, Lisa L. Sample, Kelly Socia, Amanda Agan, Jill S. Levenson, and Elizazeth J. Letourneau, have written “Sex Offender Registration and Community Notification Laws, An Empirical Evaluation” to serve as an academic textbook on the subject. Read the full article
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