Source: fox5sandiego.com 2/12/22 SAN DIEGO — Residents in the Arbolito neighborhood are concerned for their children’s safety after a convicted sex offender moved into their neighborhood without any notice to the community. Convicted sex offender, Spicer ____, was sentenced to eight years in state prison in 2017 for kidnapping, contact with a minor to commit a sexual offense and unlawful possession of an assault rifle. A concerned parent, who did not want to be identified due to safety concerns, told FOX 5 Spicer ____is living with his mother on Poway…
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Lawsuit Challenges Tiered Registry Law Provision
A lawsuit was filed this week in Sacramento Superior Court challenging the application of a tiered registry law provision that has resulted in individuals being assigned to Tier 3, the highest tier, even though their felony conviction was reduced to a misdemeanor. Specifically, the lawsuit is seeking relief for an individual convicted of a felony violation of Penal Code Section 288.2 that was later reduced to a misdemeanor. According to the lawsuit, the individual should not have been assigned to Tier 3 or to any tier, but instead should have…
Read MoreCA: California domestic violence advocates ask Gov. Newsom to spend more on prevention programs
Source: fresnobee.com 2/14/22 A coalition of 100-plus crisis intervention agencies is once again appealing to the California Legislature and Gov. Gavin Newsom to set aside funding in next year’s budget to pay for programming found to prevent sexual and domestic violence. Although California has a budget surplus, Newsom did not set aside money for this work in his January budget proposal, something that did not sit well with coalition leaders. “Despite significant investments in policing and criminalization as a response to rising concerns about public safety, the governor’s budget ignores…
Read MoreJanice’s Journal: Fear Obscures Fact
A recent TV news show on a completely different topic recently introduced me to the phrase, “Fear Obscures Fact.” That short phrase struck a nerve as it concisely explains one of the major obstacles in the registrant community. There is a plethora of data in studies and reports from both government and academia stating the facts. For example, the rate of re-offense for individuals required to register is very low and continues to decrease the more time they spend in the community. This rate of re-offense is as low as…
Read MoreEvent Alert: INVITATION to H.E.A.L. on Feb 20
Source: H.E.A.L. HEAL – VA- Organizational Flyer You are invited to join H.E.A.L.’s Zoom meeting on February 20. Our purpose is to reform unjust and outdated sex crime laws. Our meeting will discuss: Explain WHAT we propose to be and WHY Explore need & rationale for “another new group” Gauge “levels of interest & effort” members want to put Define organizational mission For some years now, we who have been impacted by “sex” crimes have been fighting in the shadows, unknown to each other, and feeling alone. Through our individual…
Read MoreInternational Travel 2022
This post is intended as a place for discussions about International Travel ONLY. We added a new post for this year in order to keep the discussion manageable. For more information and previous discussions on the topic, please see the pages in the International Travel menu named International Travel [year number] Click here for the latest International Travel Information and Resources
Read MoreKS: These two child porn crimes don’t require sex offender registration. A Kansas bill would change that.
Source: cjonline.com 2/8/22 Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt is pushing for lawmakers to require people convicted of certain child pornography crimes to register as sex offenders. “This is a matter of the law needing to catch up with technology,” Schmidt said in a statement. “Sadly, as the methods of distributing visual depictions of children being sexually abused have expanded, so too must the legal tools available to respond to that sort of illegal behavior that harms kids. This added tool is needed to help prevent more kids from becoming victims.” Senate…
Read MoreGA: US probation officer told Irish sex offender facing homelessness ‘to go and live in tent’
Source: breakingnews.ie 2/8/22 An Irish man who was jailed for trying to entice a child for indecent purposes was told to “go and live in a tent” by a probation officer in the United States, the Court of Appeal was told on Tuesday. Martin ___(46) was caught in a police sting in the State of Georgia after he sent a nude selfie to an Internet chatroom user he believed was 13-year-old girl. He later fled the US to Ireland while on probation, and has been fighting attempts to extradite him…
Read MoreCANADA: Supreme Court considers if mandatory listing on sex registry is constitutional
Source: cbc.ca 2/8/22 Edmonton lawyer asks top court to strike down sections of Canada’s sex offender laws The fallout from a 2011 Edmonton sexual assault case has come before the Supreme Court of Canada. The country’s top court has been asked to consider striking down two sections of Canada’s sex offender laws as unconstitutional. In 2011, the Stephen Harper government altered the Criminal Code so the names of sex offenders would automatically be placed on the sex offender registry. The changes meant judges no longer had discretion on whether to submit…
Read MoreKS: Victims advocate lawmakers to force convicted peeping suspects onto sex offender registry
Source: kshb.com 2/7/22 KANSAS CITY, KS. — On Tuesday, the Kansas State Senate is set to hear a sex offender law in Topeka. Kansas Senate Bill 385 would require people convicted of certain breach of privacy offenses, like peeping, to register as a sex offender. This is something victims and advocates have been fight for after several peeping cases here in the Kansas City area. Former Johnson County prosecutor Jason Covington has been working on these type of cases for years. “No place was safe. It could be a retail…
Read MoreMichigan ACLU Attorney Miriam Aukerman will be in The Room!
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…
Read MoreFL: OUTCASTS Inside the community where hundreds of pedophiles live surrounded by gator-infested waters
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…
Read MoreACSOL Has New Mailing Address
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.
Read MoreMI: ACLU Sues State Officials for the Fourth Time over Unconstitutional Michigan Sex Offender Registration Act
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…
Read MoreGA: 11th Circuit Says a Sheriff Violated the First Amendment by Posting Warning Signs on the Lawns of Registered Sex Offenders
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…
Read MoreU.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…
Read More9-Year-Olds Are Being Forced to Register as Sex Offenders. That Might Finally Change.
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…
Read MoreCASOMB Issues Annual Report for 2021
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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