Please join ACSOL Executive Director and civil rights attorney Janice Bellucci as well as ACSOL board member and criminal defense attorney Chance Oberstein for our next meeting. The meeting will be held on Saturday, March 18, online on Zoom beginning at 10 a.m. Pacific time, 1:00 PM Eastern, and will last at least two hours. You can use the Zoom app or call in using a Zoom phone number.
There is no registration needed for this meeting. You can use the Zoom app to see Janice and Chance and choose to show or hide yourself, or you can use the Zoom phone number to call in to the meeting.
This meeting will be recorded and then posted here as an audio recording within a couple of days. A link to the recording will be at the top of our pages.
Discussion topics will include:
- SORNA
- California Lobby Day 2023
- meet a board member
- the California Tiered Registry (now effective)
- challenges to California Tiered Registry Law
- domestic and overseas travel
- other current topics and pending legal action throughout the nation.
Please Show Up, Stand Up and Speak Up!
To join our Zoom meeting with your Zoom app, click on this link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83273166148
Or you can call in to one of the phone numbers below, then specify:
Meeting ID: 832 7316 6148
Here is one Zoom number +1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)
Or find your local number from around the world: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kcQ8fXsCtM
Not to add more to the plate, I just thought of something that may be good for these type of conference calls/meetings:
Thank you for this post and reminder of our Meeting this coming Saturday, 3/18/2023. I look forward to our monthly meeting. I have some questions regarding SB731 bill. I hope we can talk about this item and perhaps Attorney Janice would expand on this for us – SB731
“Effective July 1, 2023, the new law under SB 731 expands this conviction record relief making it available for defendants convicted of most felonies on or after January 1, 2005, provided they have completed their incarceration, probation, mandatory supervision, parole or any other terms of their conviction, and a period of 4 years has elapsed during which the defendant was not convicted of a new felony offense. The new law does not apply to registered sex offenders. . .“
. . . “And while people with violent, serious felony records would not be offered the automatic “clean slate,” they could, for the first time, petition to have their records sealed.“
My questions are: 1) when they referred to “Serious felony records” will this apply to any of the PC288 categories? 2) and how does this apply to those that were successful in getting their records dismissed? 3) For those that have, and for those that will soon be, granted removal from RSO registration, will they/we be consider eligible for automatic sealed/clean slate? 4) How do we find out, do we have to wait for DOJ to eventually notify us, (on not) or instead of waiting, should we apply for “Sealed Records” petition anyway?
My questions may have obvious answers, but since we have seen for ourselves how DOJ plays games and chose to interpret laws to fit their needs and desires, I was hoping we could get additional information during our meeting on what and how to proceed in this new area of the Law. Please update us on anything in this matter. Thank you for your time and help.