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 August 19, 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…
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FL: Man jailed after allegedly attempting to use pickup to run over sex offender
Source: villages-news.com 7/15/23 A 67-year-old Wildwood man has been jailed after allegedly attempting to use a pickup to run over a convicted sex offender. William Harold Bailey went to the sex offender’s residence on County Road 121 shortly before noon Thursday and “aggressively” confronted the sex offender, according to an arrest report from the Sumter County Sheriff’s Office. He allegedly took a swing at the sex offender, who was not identified in the report. Bailey got into his tan pickup truck and attempted to strike the sex offender, with whom…
Read MoreTX: Sex offender in Fort Bend County gets 60-year sentence for refusing to register
Source: cw39.com 7/14/23 RICHMOND, Texas (KIAH) — In June of 2020, now-53-year-old Brian _____ told police in Missouri City that the laws of Texas didn’t apply to him. Officers had just discovered that the convicted sex offender had been living in that community for years without registering as is required by state law. Shortly after, _____ fled the state, but U.S. Marshals eventually tracked him down in Arizona. On June 30, A Fort Bend County jury convicted him on two charges of Failure to Comply with Sex Offender Registration Requirements…
Read MoreMN: 8th Circuit OKs conditions in embattled Minnesota sex offender program
Source: 7/13/23 courthousenews.com ST. LOUIS (CN) — The Eighth Circuit has once again given its blessing to a Minnesota program that detains certain sex offenders indefinitely, finding that neither the program nor the conditions it subjects detainees to violate their First, Fourth or 14th Amendment rights. The program at issue, the Minnesota Sex Offender Program, houses about 740 civilly-committed men in two high-security facilities in rural parts of the state. Most, but not all, of those detainees have sex offense convictions — in many cases, multiple such offenses — and judges determined…
Read MoreItaly: Italian man cleared of assault because grope only lasted ‘between five and 10 seconds’
Source: theguardian.com 7/13/23 An Italian judge has provoked outrage after clearing a school caretaker of sexually assaulting a teenage girl because the grope lasted only “a handful of seconds”. A 17-year-old student at a school in Rome complained of being groped by the caretaker as she walked up a staircase with a friend in April 2022. She said her trousers had fallen down from her waist and as she was pulling them up she felt a pair of hands touching her buttocks before the man grabbed her underwear and lifted…
Read MoreMI: Michigan Governor signs new law raising legal age to marry and bans minors from marrying with parental consent
Source: fox17online.com 7/13/23 LANSING, Mich. — Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed legislation on Tuesday that prevents child marriage. The bills raise the minimum age to marry in Michigan to 18. The bills also prevent parents and guardians from consenting to a minor’s marriage. It also prohibits minors from being considered emancipated upon marriage, as well as allows a parent or guardian to apply for an annulment of a marriage if one of the married parties was under the age of legal consent. “I am proud that today child marriage has been…
Read MoreACSOL Stops Protests Outside CA Registrants’ Home
The Alliance for Constitutional Sex Offense Laws (ACSOL) has stopped protests outside a house in Fairfield, CA, where five registrants on parole were residing. The protests were televised and included the Mayor of that town which is located between Sacramento and San Francisco. The Mayor falsely claimed on several TV broadcasts that the registrants pose a current danger and demanded that the registrants move from the house where they were placed by the CA Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR). Registrants on parole do not pose a current danger, according…
Read MoreACSOL Challenges Treatment Requirements for CA Parolees
The Alliance for Constitutional Sex Offense Laws (ACSOL) filed a lawsuit today challenging treatment requirements for registrants on parole. Specifically, the lawsuit claims that the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) requires all registrants on parole to undergo treatment the entire time they are on parole and that this requirement violates state law. The lawsuit was filed today in Los Angeles Superior Court and includes five individual plaintiffs as well as ACSOL. The lawsuit could bring relief to more than 6,800 registrants who are currently on parole. According to…
Read MoreFederal Prison Authority Consulting Services to speak 7/10/23 on CCNCR
Source: cautionclick.com 7/7/23 Guest speaker Bruce Cameron, MS, LPC-S, LSOTP-S. will be on Caution Click’s monthly meeting on Monday, July 10. Mr. Cameron is the founder and lead program analyst for Federal Prison Authority. He will discuss his consulting services that will cover a wide range of information that may be helpful to many of us. He has helped people currently incarcerated, and post release. Some of his topics he will discuss are sex offender treatment, supervised release and deregistration evaluation. Click here to read Federal Prison Authority’s website. Click…
Read MoreMO: Missouri governor explains why he vetoed bill that included Blair’s Law
Source: kctv5.com 7/6/23 JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KCTV) – Missouri’s governor has vetoed S.B. 189, which included Blair’s Law to increase the penalty for celebratory gunfire, but he explained his reasons for doing so in a letter. Blar’s Law was named after 11-year-old Blair Shanahan Lane, a Kansas City girl who was killed by celebratory gunfire on July 4, 2011. According to a press release, Gov. Mike Parson vetoed the bill due to the following provisions that were included: “Section 610.140 – could allow criminals convicted of sexual offenses, including sexual…
Read MoreIL: SIU Illinois researcher’s team advocates for new assessment, treatment approach for juvenile sex offenders
Source: news.siu.edu 7/6/23 CARBONDALE, Ill. — Tamara Kang, assistant professor in Southern Illinois University Carbondale’s School of Psychological and Behavioral Sciences, and her colleagues have created a new research-based assessment for juvenile sex offenders, which they say is more accurate, effective and beneficial for the young offenders and society as a whole than current systems. And since 95-97% of juveniles won’t reoffend, the team recommends treatment over incarceration. “A lot of times the public views juveniles with sex offenses as really dangerous, but the vast majority of them aren’t different…
Read MoreDE: Crypto phone scam targets people on Delaware’s sex offender registry
Source: delawarepublic.org 7/5/23 A new phone scam targeting people on Delaware’s sex offender registry has drawn the attention of Delaware’s Department of Safety and Homeland Security. Last week, reports of the bizarre phone scam reached Delaware’s Sex Offender Management Board, which includes representatives from law enforcement, behavioral health treatment providers and the Office of Public Defense. Board Chair Robert Hudson says the callers, posing as law enforcement, told targets they had failed to register as sex offenders and warrants had been issued for their arrest. According to the callers, those…
Read MoreIL: Why doesn’t Illinois copy Missouri’s Strict GPS “Sex Offender” Law?
Source: khmoradio.com 5/5/23 Will there be a time when Illinois passes the same strict law that Missouri has when it comes to Sex Offenders? People are questioning why doesn’t Illinois have the same law. What is this law exactly? Here are the details… North Carolina has just joined Missouri, Wisconsin, and other states as states that can legally GPS Strack Registered Sex Offenders for the rest of their lives. When I saw that headline, as a resident of Illinois, I thought to myself, why don’t more states have that law?…
Read MoreCA: Federal Court Denies Government’s Motion to Dismiss SORNA Claims
Source: ACSOL A federal court today issued a decision that denies a motion to dismiss two claims filed by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) in the pending SORNA lawsuit. The focus of the decision is the application of the recently issued SORNA regulations. The federal government has argued in the past that the SORNA regulations apply to every person convicted of a sex offense unless there has been a court finding of innocence. Plaintiffs have argued that the SORNA regulations apply only to those who are currently required to…
Read MoreID: Idaho federal judge declined to dismiss six convicted sex offenders’ challenge
Source: courthousenews.com 7/3/23 BOISE, Idaho — An Idaho federal judge declined to dismiss six convicted sex offenders’ challenge to a state law allegedly unfairly applied to them even though they were convicted prior to the enactment of portions of the law. The offenders would have been eligible to petition for removal from the sex offender registry after 10 years, but amendments retroactively subjected them to lifetime registration. The individuals have plausibly alleged the law is punitive in effect as it significantly restricts where they may legally live and work. Read…
Read MoreTime to Sign Up for ACSOL Conference on Oct. 14 and 15 in Los Angeles
Tickets are now available to sign up for the ACSOL conference on Saturday, October 14, and Sunday, October 15, at Southwestern Law School in Los Angeles. The cost to attend the two-day conference, including lunch on both days, is $50 for those who sign up before September 1. The cost will increase to $75 for those sign up on September 1 or later. Scholarships are available upon request. The conference will include presentations by sociologist Emily Horowitz and Caleb Kruckenberg, lead attorney in the pending challenge of SORNA regulations. The…
Read MoreWI: Wisconsin Supreme Court ruling gives hope to offenders on lifetime GPS
Source: captimes.com 7/3/23 Benjamin Braam has already decided a recent Wisconsin Supreme Court ruling means he can stop recharging an electronic tracking bracelet the state forced him to wear for the rest of his life. The high court’s decision involved a case unrelated to Braam, but it shot down the rationale that former Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel used to justify the lifetime monitoring of one-time sexual offenders even after they completed their sentences and were no longer under court-ordered supervision. Authorities from the state Department of Corrections “called me…
Read MoreCA Court Ends Frank Lindsay’s Requirement to Register
A court in California has ended Frank Lindsay’s requirement to register by granting his petition for removal from the registry. A copy of the court order issued in San Luis Obispo County was sent today by email to attorney Janice Bellucci. Frank Lindsay was convicted of a single sex offense in 1979. He had no prior or subsequent convictions of any kind yet he was required to register for more than 40 years. Frank Lindsay is author of the book, “We’re All in This Together,” which describes his life both…
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