F. Allen “Tex” Harris Award for [tighter rules for registrant passport application]

Source: afsa.org  NOTE: This article is buried on this long page. You will need to scroll down to the fourth article entitled “F. Allen “Tex” Harris Award for Constructive Dissent by a Foreign Service Specialist“ While serving as chief of the Criminal Investigative Liaison Branch of the State Department’s Diplomatic Security Service (DSS) in 2018, Supervisory Special Agent Steven May was alerted by interagency partners to a significant gap in the implementation of a law designed to protect children from sex offenders. Alarmed, he got to work and tirelessly advocated…

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‘I lost my retirement, my career, my home’: the Americans imprisoned for being HIV-positive

Source: theguardian.com 12/1/22 Thirty-three states maintain laws tied to exposure or transmission, many developed long before the illness was understood Robert Suttle was 30 when he was arrested and imprisoned for the felony of “intentional exposure to the Aids virus”. He had met the man at a gay club on New Year’s Eve 2007 and they had quickly begun a relationship. Suttle says he disclosed his status as HIV-positive to his partner immediately. However, when the couple separated a few months later, the man pressed charges claiming that Suttle had…

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Janice’s Journal: Don’t Feed Oxygen to a Fire

ACSOL is aware that articles have been published and TV reports have been broadcast that are spreading misinformation about alleged early releases from prison of several hundred registrants in California.  These false articles and reports claim that the registrants pose a current danger to the public.   ACSOL has decided not to publish these articles and TV reports on its website because they are not based on reality.  Instead, they are based on unsupported allegations made by an attorney in California who is a former prosecutor.  The same attorney is also…

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