ACSOL President Chance Oberstein to Discuss Travel Law Updates

ACSOL President Chance Oberstein will discuss travel law updates on September 17 at 11 a.m. (Pacific) during this year’s ACSOL annual conference.  Mr. Oberstein’s presentation will address both domestic and overseas travel.

“Registrants are traveling both domestically and internationally during the pandemic for both personal and business reasons,” stated ACSOL Executive Director Janice Bellucci.  “Not only must they be careful of COVID-19 restrictions, they must also pay attention to the International Megan’s Law and state laws.”

Paul Rigney, who heads the Registrant Travel Action Group (RTAG), will join Mr. Oberstein in this presentation.  RTAG offers a wide range of information to registrants online, including whether countries have allowed or denied access to registrants.  That website can be reached at www.registranttag.org.

In order to view this presentation, it is necessary to sign up for ACSOL’s virtual conference that will take place on September 17 and September 18.  Below is a link to use for that purpose.  The cost of attending the two-day conference is $25.  Scholarships are available for those who are unable to pay that amount.

Sign up now

 

Related posts

Subscribe
Notify of

We welcome a lively discussion with all view points - keeping in mind...

 

  1. Submissions must be in English
  2. Your submission will be reviewed by one of our volunteer moderators. Moderating decisions may be subjective.
  3. Please keep the tone of your comment civil and courteous. This is a public forum.
  4. Swear words should be starred out such as f*k and s*t and a**
  5. Please avoid the use of derogatory labels.  Always use person-first language.
  6. Please stay on topic - both in terms of the organization in general and this post in particular.
  7. Please refrain from general political statements in (dis)favor of one of the major parties or their representatives.
  8. Please take personal conversations off this forum.
  9. We will not publish any comments advocating for violent or any illegal action.
  10. We cannot connect participants privately - feel free to leave your contact info here. You may want to create a new / free, readily available email address that are not personally identifiable.
  11. Please refrain from copying and pasting repetitive and lengthy amounts of text.
  12. Please do not post in all Caps.
  13. If you wish to link to a serious and relevant media article, legitimate advocacy group or other pertinent web site / document, please provide the full link. No abbreviated / obfuscated links. Posts that include a URL may take considerably longer to be approved.
  14. We suggest to compose lengthy comments in a desktop text editor and copy and paste them into the comment form
  15. We will not publish any posts containing any names not mentioned in the original article.
  16. Please choose a short user name that does not contain links to other web sites or identify real people.  Do not use your real name.
  17. Please do not solicit funds
  18. No discussions about weapons
  19. If you use any abbreviation such as Failure To Register (FTR), Person Forced to Register (PFR) or any others, the first time you use it in a thread, please expand it for new people to better understand.
  20. All commenters are required to provide a real email address where we can contact them.  It will not be displayed on the site.
  21. Please send any input regarding moderation or other website issues via email to moderator [at] all4consolaws [dot] org
  22. We no longer post articles about arrests or accusations, only selected convictions. If your comment contains a link to an arrest or accusation article we will not approve your comment.
  23. If addressing another commenter, please address them by exactly their full display name, do not modify their name. 
ACSOL, including but not limited to its board members and agents, does not provide legal advice on this website.  In addition, ACSOL warns that those who provide comments on this website may or may not be legal professionals on whose advice one can reasonably rely.  
 

17 Comments
Inline Feedbacks
View all comments

IML,
Another miscalculated foreign policy. One where gov takes it upon themselves to protect foreign nationals from Americans, and on their own soil to boot! Why does America feel the need to advertise the worst of the flock on a world wide scale? In my experience, I have seen many “Beware of Dog” signs, but never does the warning include a picture of the dog. I believe the key to understanding why America has chosen to implement IML rests somewhere other than D.C.

Do you figure ISIS-K, The Taliban, or Al Qaeda will do the same for us? The Russians did their best with the Tsarnaev Brothers, but that warning fell on deaf ears,

Unless I’m remembering wrong: Wasn’t IML voted in under some sort of emergency procedure in Congress which doesn’t require a quorum and/or hearings, etc? If this was the case, then why can’t it be fought on the basis of “What emergency”????????? How the hell is this an emergency??? What proven connection is there between registrants and overseas child abuse?

I recall Smith v Doe, 2003 citing that a person had to go to the local PD to get access to a registrant’s information. The IML takes that information and disseminates it to the world on your passport. Using the 2003 decision, we should be able to point out that the IML on top of our current registration rule is an added burden.

Since we’ve seen a few states already won cases showing the newer laws added on top of the older registrants is punishment, then why can’t it be applied similarly with the IML? It should be easier because it’s a federal law for the IML and we have a federal law in Smith v Doe, 2003 to compare and contrast with easily.

IML isn’t going anywhere anytime soon all we can hope for is sometime in the near future that certain tier 3 offenders can be removed from the registry after 30 years.
People forced to register aren’t allowed to leave the country, it’s not impossible but the Federal government has made it extremely hard.
Me personally if I made it to one of those Non-extradition countries I wouldn’t even come back to America.
Every time i hear about border patrol capturing another sex offender trying to re-enter the United States after being deported just blows my mind, why would they go through all that to get back to Megan’s Law and CDC death camps, I know Mexico ain’t the best place to live but daam nothing can be worse then being on Megan’s law website in America

Good luck

Last edited 3 years ago by AERO1

I missed signing up for this by about an hour and a half it looks like. Any chance there will be a recording we can pay to hear?