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To those who have asked for permission to visit a school, do you know if the teachers were notified of your visit and were aware?
There’s a meeting at the school for my kid in a couple of weeks. There’s going to be about 20 people in the room along with 2 teachers. I’m afraid if I ask for permission to attend the teachers will be notified perhaps even with my identity.
Here’s the tough part. One of the teachers is an old friend I haven’t seen in 30 years. The last thing I want is after 30 years the first thing that friend knows of me is of my status.
Even if they don’t tell the teachers I’m wondering if they might assign some security or something because it’s a small group. That might tip off the teachers that there’s something not normal.
I have been to a graduation on the football field before but there were thousands of people there so there was security there anyway. Didn’t matter to me.
Thoughts?
Really?? 🙄
Sex offender arrested after recently caught jaywalking in Merced
Trying to understand reg requirments for visitors. A number of states have requirements that read something like this: Visitors: Must reg. w/in 3 days if in state for period of 7 days.
Does that mean that if I INTEND to stay more than 7 days I should register within 3? What if I don’t know for sure how many days I will be in the state, but I DO know it won’t be more than 7? What if I’m there 3 or 4 days, but plans change and now I MIGHT stay more than 7? Am I in trouble?? Essentially, trying to figure out at what point I cross the line and have to register. This seems a bit confusing to me.
Can someone clarify this for me?
Thank you!
This will be my last comment on here for several months. While I have to commend Janice, Chance and others on here with their comments, view points, and opinions their is still something that has a sour taste to much of this. Whether government is usurping their position or bearing false witness I’m sure it will all come out in the long run of it.
Will I can respect everyone’s opinions and comments its like someone is knit picking this down to a stale mare of a chess game. Whether its a choice or a decision I’m sure the right answer is their if one only reasons in much of this blind area. Their are even many against abortion issue but the truth will come out and set everyone free.
The United States does not wish to export the public safety threat posed by its sex offenders to other countries. Requiring sex offenders in the United States to inform their registration jurisdictions about international travel provides a basis for notifying foreign authorities in the destination countries, which helps to reduce the resulting risks. If these sex offenders do reoffend in other countries, the resulting human harm to victims is no less because it occurs in a foreign country, (and the United States’ image and foreign relations interests may be adversely affected as well.)
So the only reason for iml is :
“and the United States’ image and foreign relations interests may be adversely affected as well.)”
They are just trying to save face! It’s not public safety!
So, not sure if this is for anyone on here. As some of you know, I don’t live in the country and havent for some time. Still on the NY SOR because not committing any new crimes since my first and only in 2007 wasn’t enough to prove that I’m not a danger to society 🤷♂️
Anywho, divorce finalized in 2021 after leaving my abusive ex. Met my new wife within the remaining time I had on my visa.
Have been successful in getting a visa here for short term. Will find out about my long term visa on Monday hopefully as immigration has been closed since the 26th for the end of Ramadhan month.
My visa back in my previous country has already been approved to come back. But my passport is still with immigration here.
Luckily this side of the world still values keeping family together as well as once you’ve finished your sentence that’s it crime paid for.
Still looking to find a job but unlike the US jobs are scarce here.
Example 2. A sex offender cannot register in a state in which he resides because its registration authorities will not register offenders on the basis of the offense for which the sex offender was convicted. The sex offender would have a defense to liability because the state’s unwillingness to register sex offenders like him is a circumstance beyond his control. However, if the sex offender failed to register after becoming aware of a change in state policy or practice allowing his registration, the 18 U.S.C. 2250(c) defense would no longer apply, because in such a case the circumstance preventing compliance with the registration requirement would no longer exist.
Example 3. A sex offender needs to travel to a foreign country on short notice—less than 21 days—because of an unforeseeable family or work emergency. The sex offender would have a defense to liability for failing to report the intended travel 21 days in advance, as required by § 72.7(f), because it is impossible to report an intention to travel outside the United States before the intention exists. However, if the sex offender failed to inform the registration jurisdiction (albeit on short notice) once he intended to travel, 18 U.S.C. 2250(c) would not excuse that failure, because the preventing circumstance—absence of an intent to travel abroad—would no longer exist.
(b) Supervision condition. For a sex offender convicted of a Federal offense, compliance with SORNA is a mandatory condition of probation, supervised release, and parole. The release of such an offender who does not comply with SORNA may be revoked.
Dated: July 15, 2020.
William P. Barr,
Attorney General.
[FR Doc. 2020-15804 Filed 8-12-20; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4410-18-P
All you guys in California with 16 year old or 17 year old just mobilize and move to east coast and if she was 17 just move to Texas you don’t have to register as it’s not a crime at 17 in Texas. Court of Appeals said so.
With the upcoming primaries in California does ACSOL have a list of endorsements or favorable people to vote for?
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
It was just a matter of time!!
CA: Los Angeles playground ban would brand single adults as pedophiles, say critics.
😳Playground ban for lone adults.🙄
Not that it matters, because there is no truly organized resistance to the registry, but if there were one, you can’t get there with legalese. CS Lewis has a famous quote that England didn’t stop putting witches to death because it grew more moral—it stopped because it realized they didn’t exist. People aren’t going to stop persecuting people with sex crimes convictions because they grow more compassionate—it will be because they realize sex crimes aren’t witchcraft, that you can’t sully a person’s soul by looking at them funny. Imagine if they were right—that America’s children’s fragile psyches were at the constant mercy of strange men, that a single unwanted touch could turn a person into a monster, and that there was an irredeemable class of human called “sex criminal” that wanted naught in life but to destroy lives—they’d be righteous to want us locked away forever! But the fact remains this is fantasy, just as witchcraft was largely fantasy. This is all that matters—setting the science right. Facts, not morality. To that end, I don’t think either political party has our back, because both embrace the fantasy of trauma. Many of you probably do too. At best, we’ll eke out minor victories in this regard.
Greetings,
I live in California, am not on the registry in California, but I am on the registry in Florida for an offense in the military. I qualify for HUD-VASH housing, but because I show up on the registry in Florida, they are denying me housing. The Housing Authority in Riverside also refused to allow me to dispute the information they obtained prior to them making a decision.
I really do need housing assistance for myself and my two children.
== Memory Monday ==
While doing research online to post the Re:Taylor decision, I had an old ACSOL article from 2016 pop up in my search function sharing low recidivism rates: link. I think that was the last time ACSOL had posted recidivism rates from the CDCR.
With so many new people on here, I figured sharing it as a resource you can use that identifies exactly how low the recidivism rates are for registrants. Here’s a quote from the article:
Recidivism rates of registrants on parole
It’s too bad we don’t know what the rest of the ensuing reports are, but I’m thinking these facts are probably factors of why SB-384 came to fruition. SB-384 is a move in the correct direction, but looking at how low those recidivism rates are, I don’t think ACSOL is done for regaining our constitutional rights.
A minimum of ten years to get off the registry is still too long to be treated like you’re a second class citizen. Being on the registry limits so many opportunities, so many freedoms. One can’t get back the time lost as a second class citizen.
All we are are a political tool because politicians don’t care about the science… because SCOTUS used false facts. We’re often excluded from benefits that other convict groups are given such as early release, job programs, housing, etc… We’re all painted as monsters that are irredeemable since SCOTUS decision of Smith v Doe, 2003. We’re all painted as second class citizens since then.
At my gym, there’s a day care where members can drop their toddlers while the mom or dad work out.
Is this a situation where I have to get permission from someone associated with the daycare to be on the premises?
This is in CA, my conviction did not involve a minor and I’ve been off parole since ‘94.
Thanks!
Does anyone have any thoughts on submitting a lawsuit to remove the exemptions from 1203.4? Or does anyone have information on it?
I am exempt from it since it was changed, and I think it is wrong and a violation of my equal protection rights for successful completion of probation that I can’t while others can.
LPH and locked in time you all talk about action or one’s action which is the key to everything. If actions speak louder than words than who keeps silent. In other words who is manipulating who. At times silence is golden.
All should take a look at Richmond or many other weekend ordeals in many other states. Who is doing the action, who is doing the manipulation. Who is getting blacklisted with these sex registry ordeals or who is listening to how the rules of the game go via these internet sting operations. One wonders who lets guard down to satisfy their own libido.
Who is trapping two, three, or four birds with one stone. I’m sure no one likes stones’ thrown at them. Sure we all say much of this internet ordeal is for pubic safety. So tell me is the internet really public safety. Their are more scammers on the internet today than their was back in the times of the Roaring 20’s.Is computer edicte about giving the devil his dues. While Tim is talking about flip-phones and witchcraft who is being the craftiest. And I thought Gwendoline was a good witch. What stink’ n think’n. For all we know she could of been a fairy whats the difference but it is man-made ignorance or is their a reason for all season.
🙉 Certainly worth a listen!! 👍🏻
NPR Radio’s ‘On the Media“:
“Crime and Punishment” (what’s wrong with the media’s crime beat)
I just watched the news, and it looks like a new law was passed in New Jersey [in 2020] called “Daniel’s Law”. It is a law to protect judges’, law enforcements’ and Prosecutors’ home addresses, etc from being publicly displayed for safety reasons.
https://www.nj.gov/governor/news/news/562020/20201120b.shtml
Here is a short excerpt, addressing such safety issues:
“Daniel Anderl’s tragic death reminds us that the disclosure of personal information can leave judges and family members vulnerable to threats and violence,” said Chief Justice Stuart Rabner. “We are grateful to the Governor and the Legislature for taking this important step to provide common sense protections for active and retired judges and their families, along with others in the justice system, in the hope that a future tragedy can be prevented.”
So, having this information disclosed for PFRs is acceptable, and the threat of violence for these PFRs is not as important? I know, it is in the interest of public safety (they say), but this is another blatant proof that PFRs are not deemed human beings with human rights. In my opinion, unless the government can PROVE that PFRs are a danger (no tabloid idiotic statistics, but real data), these PFRs should also be protected from harm due to the public disclosure. PFRs are not the only ones who could potentially harm a child. There are drug dealers, drunk drivers, robbers, etc, so if they keep using the term “in the interest of public safety”, they need to extend to anyone and everyone who is a threat. No, I don’t think there should be more registries, and I don’t believe that is humanly possible to add all the other ex-offenders to a list, but in that case, the one they have for PFRs needs to be abolished in the interest of “equal protection”. Obviously, the public disclosure can and will cause harm as mentioned in this new law.
Just came across a post on another forum, and the PFR had done a credit report through Experian. The results notified him about a PFR living close by, with full name and address. Has anyone heard about this, and is this legal?
I just want to know why and how they keep getting away with “in the interest of public safety” Even when one applies for an expungement or COR, or petitions to get off the registry, the “in the interest of public safety” always seems to come into play. Why? What determines public safety? Are they really saying that ONLY sex offenses are a threat to public safety? So, why all the law enforcement then if killing, robbing, drug dealing, drunk driving, etc is NOT a threat to public safety? I am fed up with their nonsense excuse for everything sex offense related. In the interest of public safety, other “crimes” are just as much a threat if not more (most likely more) than a person who watched images or streaked across a field. Please, someone tell me how this can still be going on? It should be a slam dunk to argue this. How can they honestly say that one does not need to know where a murderer lives but one needs to know where a registrant lives? PPPLLLLLEASE! It is so obvious!! The registry makes ABSOLUTELY NO SENSE.
Yes, experts say protests at SCOTUS justices’ homes appear to be illegal (https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/11/protest-justice-home-illegal/)
No link icon to link website with article title on my phone
Janice and others-
sharper Future holding mandatory group in closed non ventilated rooms. Civil rights violation? I have told thembI don’t appreciate being put at risk being an asthmatic. They don’t give a damn . see article below from San Jose Mercury News yesterday.
Coronavirus conditions are likely to worsen, with case rates continuing to rise and hospitalizations starting to increase, according to the top health official in the San Francisco Bay Area’s most populous county.
“We are also seeing a pretty significant uptick in reports of outbreaks, from schools, work sites and other congregate facilities,” Dr. Sara Cody, the Santa Clara County public health director and health officer, said at a news conference Tuesday. “Many of them are related to social gatherings. It’s spring — school is ending and people are gathering, and COVID is spreading.”
She urged that unvaccinated people get vaccinated, get boosted if eligible, wear masks in indoor public settings, get tested if you think you’ve been exposed or develop illness, and gather outdoors, or, if indoors, open the windows or otherwise increase ventilation.
The Bay Area has the highest coronavirus case rate in California, nearly twice as high as Southern California. The trends here could offer an early warning to other parts of the state, as has been the case earlier in the pandemic.
Unsettling to say the least and uncomfortable because those who are people forced to register and who have a sex crime conviction will probably always be highlighted in their system with their travel history (domestic and overseas) to be watched for, especially when notified by local LE for overseas travel if they did not know already.
Beyond immigration: ICE’s massive surveillance system has info on most Americans, report says
Open thought – Can’t the legal system tier those who have “under the influence” convictions based upon either repeat offenses, the severity of the influence (e.g., over the legal limit by certain intervals) during the sobriety test, or both? You would think they could to share the “tiering” pain among others so they, too, understand, especially if they have an “under the influence” conviction registry.
As election season approaches prepare for more scare tactics by the media and police to support more criminal justice and hard on crime folks.
Case and point this news story:
felon with ghost gun arrested for 10th time since 2020
It basically says “if CA didn’t pass those props to reduce prison sentences and prison population, this criminal would be still locked up. Look how bad he is. Give us more money to keep him off the streets!”