Month: February 2022

Michigan ACLU Attorney Miriam Aukerman will be in The Room!

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    Michigan ACLU Attorney Miriam Aukerman will be in The Room!     Please pre-register here to receive your link to engage with others in the WAR Room. Hopefully, our members and supporters have opened and read the blast received yesterday regarding the on-going saga of the war being waged in Michigan between their ACLU and the state ‘powers-that-be’!  We will have as our WAR Room guest on Tuesday, February 8th at 7 PM central time / 5 PM Pacific Time, Michigan ACLU Senior Attorney Miriam Aukerman. She will…

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FL: OUTCASTS Inside the community where hundreds of pedophiles live surrounded by gator-infested waters

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HUNDREDS of sex offenders live in a 24-acre private, isolated community along a miles-long Florida road lined by gator-infested waters and surrounded by thousands of acres of sugar cane. The community has been self-described as a safe haven for sex offenders who need a place to live because of the state’s laws that requires anyone on the registry to live between 1,000 and 2,500 feet from anywhere children might be.     It started as a pastor’s vision to help recently released inmates convicted of sex crimes in 2009 and…

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ACSOL Has New Mailing Address

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The Alliance for Constitutional Sex Offense Laws (ACSOL) has a new mailing address: ACSOL 2110 K Street Sacramento, CA 95816 The new address is very similar to the old address.  The only changes are the “house” number and the last digit of the zip code.  Please address all future correspondence to the new address effective immediately.  Thank you.

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MI: ACLU Sues State Officials for the Fourth Time over Unconstitutional Michigan Sex Offender Registration Act

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Source: aclumich.org 2/2/22 Civil rights organization says it’s unconstitutional to label people for life without individual review  DETROIT – Today the American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan (ACLU), on behalf of 10 people who all previously won federal court rulings that Michigan’s Sex Offenders Registration Act (SORA) is unconstitutional, filed a federal class action lawsuit against state officials over the latest version of the law. It is the fourth federal lawsuit the civil rights organization has filed challenging SORA in the past decade. The federal courts and the Michigan Supreme…

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GA: 11th Circuit Says a Sheriff Violated the First Amendment by Posting Warning Signs on the Lawns of Registered Sex Offenders

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Source: Reason.com 2/1/22 Butts County, Georgia, Sheriff Gary Long cited no evidence to support his pre-Halloween stunt. JACOB SULLUM | 2.1.2022 6:25 PM A Georgia sheriff violated the First Amendment when he posted signs on the lawns of registered sex offenders to warn away trick-or-treaters, a federal appeals court said in a recent ruling. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit unanimously concluded that the signs amounted to unconstitutional government-compelled speech. The decision strikes a blow against irrational policies that stigmatize sex offenders without any plausible…

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U.S. wants Canada to share travel information on convicted child sex offenders

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Source: theglobeandmail.com 2/2/22 The U.S. government says it’s frustrated that Ottawa refuses to routinely notify Washington when Canadians convicted of sexual offences against children travel to the United States, noting that it alerts Canada when the same class of American offenders are heading here. The Americans say Canada cites federal privacy law as the reason. … Mr. Kenney said the U.S. government would like Ottawa to amend its laws to allow the RCMP and Canada Border Services Agency to provide information on the travel plans of all registered child sex…

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9-Year-Olds Are Being Forced to Register as Sex Offenders. That Might Finally Change.

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Source: slate.com 2/1/22 It’s hard not to get emotional about child sexual abuse. The thought of anyone hurting a child in this way is so egregious that it’s no wonder society has thrown its support behind a robust criminal justice response, including lengthy prison sentences and the registration and public notification of people convicted of this type of sex crime. But what happens when the perpetrator of child sexual abuse is also a child? This isn’t a thought experiment. In the United States, up to 70 percent of sexual offenses…

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CASOMB Issues Annual Report for 2021

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Source: ACSOL The California Sex Offender Management Board (CASOMB) today issued its annual report for calendar year 2021.  The report is more than 30 pages long yet devotes less than one page to implementation of the Tiered Registry Law which became effective on January 1, 2021.  According to the report, the California Department of Justice (CA DOJ) “has diligently worked to ensure that the (agency)…is sufficiently staffed to handle the increase in terminations that result from granted petitions.”  This assertion, however, is inconsistent with the experience of registrants whose petitions…

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