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Happy New Year!! Although it’s not as great as when I greeted you all last year from the Motherland, I’d settle for being alive and not in jail, even if I’m stuck Amerikkka. I’d like to give a shout out to ACSOL and Janice for doing a wonderful job last year of freeing more people from Megan’s claw. We also have Missouri officials on notice to get those Jack-o’-lanterns back in the windows. But I hope this is the year that ACSOL takes on Wisconsin and their cruel registry regime. A man is begging for help in Arizona for being prosecuted over failing to register in two states. ACSOL should see it in their hearts to help John Schultz in his hour of need to have to face this DA th*g in Kenosha County Wisconsin. As a former resident of that corrupt state, I’ll never stop thinking about the registrants who get entangled in the Wisconsin criminal injustice system. Peace for the New Year! Except to all you haters. Yours truly, James Brown
Happy New Year Everyone – I just want to ask if anyone convicted of non-production CP charges that has successfully petitioned for termination of supervised release – How long were you on supervised release before petitioning? What were the conditions you met that helped convince the judge that you were no longer a threat to society?
I’m on lifetime supervised release for the same and I have been on it for over 5 years.
I really hope this will be the year where there can be some light at the end of this tunnel. I’ve been on here since I was 18, back in 1997 for a crime I didn’t do but was coerced into a statement. I’m just tired. I wish that girl/woman will come forward and tell the truth. it’s never too late.
Hello,
When traveling on a cruise ship that begins its voyage from a Schengen Nation country, can you visit a port that the ship sails to that is not one of the Schengen nations?
Sadly and depressingly, I was accused by my 15 year old and 13 year old stepdaughters for sexual assault in 1993. I’m a tiered 3 registrant, and accepted a plea bargain to avoid the risk of a long term sentence. I served 24 months and was released in July of 1995. I’ve sailed on several cruises since my release and I’m happy to announce that my travel experiences were uneventful in a positive way. I only wish I could say the same about the cities I’ve resided in. Some better than others on how you’re treated by the local law enforcement and your neighbors. But what has hurt me the most and continues to depress me daily, is no matter where I live, the dark past follows me. Eventually every new friend I make finds out about my past thanks to the sex offenders registry and the out-put distributed by Hone Facts, Nextdoor neighbors, and many other websites, including local radio stations, announcing to all those living near you about your criminal record. Your past literally spreads like wildfire. Sadly and a little late I found it’s best to tell my friends upfront before they find out from their neighbors. I’ve lost what I thought were good friends because of not disclosing my past with them. But it’s not something you’re proud of sharing so I certainly don’t blame you if you don’t disclose it. But I’ve been blessed that most of my friends have a remained friends, regardless of my situation.
On another note, I’m now almost 70 years old, and for most of my working life I’ve been an entrepreneur. I know it’s not easy seeking employment with a sexual criminal record, and I’m one of those who had a difficult time seeking employment. To those of you who are experiencing the same, there is an alternative. Start your own business! What is your trade, what do you enjoy doing? Start by filing a fictitious business name through one of the local papers and open a business account. Register your business as an LLC, or S-corporation, depending on what you’re wanting to do. You can achieve this with very little money. You can also build a website inexpensively marketing your trade. Knock on doors, advertise locally and don’t give up on pounding the pavement. Eventually good things will come your way. In 1998, three years after my release I started my business and I’m still in business today. Today both of my daughters and their husbands are majority stockholders, and my oldest daughter and her husband now run the company and we now have 30 employees. Most of my grandchildren have also worked for my company. I’m pretty much retired now, and I would like to have the opportunity to travel with freedom. But my biggest wish and dream of all is to free myself, my family and you from this dark cloud that floats above us.
Wishing you all a happy and prosperous 2024, and I look forward to meeting all of you on the annual lobby day in March.
Big thanks to ACSOL for all you do for us. This couldn’t be accomplished without the donations.
Regards,
Brad Davies
Another year on the registry, 24 to be exact, and I’m still here dealing with this BS like it just happened yesterday, The only difference is I’m no longer in my early teens now I’m in my early 40s and i’ve noticed that people seem to judge me a lot more harsher in my older age than they did when I was a teenager and in my 20s, It’s like the older I get the more punishment is applied.
At the end of the day, the registry is nothing but lifetime, probation / parole on people who have already paid their debts to society in hopes of tripping them up on violations and placing them back into the prison system.
Happy 2024 to you all!!!!!!!!! I’m looking for some help/guidance.
Quick backstory, I was 17 living in Colorado when I sexually offended on two twelve year old girls. I was sentenced to 2yrs and charged as a juvenile. I successfully completed everything required of me and moved to Arizona for a “new beginning” and a new beginning it was. At age 23 I ended up getting charged with failure to register, which I thought I didn’t have to anymore due to it being a Juvi case and I was done with all that. Well I was given 10yrs probation. Years and trials and tribulations later I was able to get off the Colorado Sex offender registry. I’ve reached out to some lawyers and was told by some there’s nothing I or they can do while other told me if I had ten to twenty grand they will see what they can do. I have not committed any new sex offense charges. Does anyone have any thought or comments that could potentially help me get removed off of Arizona’s sex offender registry
Wanted to share this with everyone in the hope that it will happen to them as well.
I got a call from a friend that had distanced themselves from me after my offense. His wife was not comfortable with having me around their two young children. I accepted her decision and didn’t contact them, even though all of us had gone to college together.
Anyway, I had been invited to an event at their home. I asked if everyone was onboard with this and was told, “Yes, she’s o.k. with it”. When I arrived there were no other cars I recognized, so I figured I was either early or had missed out. I was wrong. The “event” was my being invited to have dinner with their family. His parents and sister’s family were there. I was welcomed and after dinner was told that the kids wanted to show their “Uncle” their Xmas gifts.
At a moment in the yard I was approached by both and told that I was welcome any time and that they were sorry for judging me as they had. When I left every member of his family either shook my hand or gave me a warm embrace. I drove down to the end of the block and stopped for a moment, not knowing how to feel.
I have come to accept my family and friends basically ostracizing me from their lives, and I have moved on. But until you are given the opportunity to be welcomed back, you truly don’t know how much that empty spot hurts.
I hope everyone that has experienced this gets a chance to be welcomed by those that stood in judgement of them. 🙏🏼
New year, same draconian BS. The “progressive” state of Illinois did not pass the proximity law reducing the “danger” zone from 500 feet to 250 feet, and upon looking at ILVoices legislation page, they added two bad bills for 2024. One of which (IL HB4323) was introduced by Rep Cabello which, in short, would require registrants to wear an ankle monitor for the first 5 years of their registration period (as if parole or probation isn’t enough?) and any violations would require an additional 3 years.
I don’t see this overtly punitive law going anywhere, but it’s just frustrating to see.
Hello all!
I’m a Tier 2 registrant and coming up on my 20 years. Any recommendations on a lawyer around the Fresno area to assist with filing my petition?
Just got banned from the Reddit “Sex Offender” a support group, LOL! Evidently moderators don’t like people saying viewing cp online does not create perpetual victims. I was told I was minimizing the offense and not being considerate of survivors. This is my real home at ACSOL
Have any one check to see if being on the Megan law violate CCPA because it is personal information?
Happy New Year indeed! I was just informed that the court has granted my removal from CA’s registry as of yesterday. I’m stunned and elated. The entire process only took a matter of about 5 months from start to finish and was all handled by the public defender’s office. I didn’t need to appear in court or anything. All I did was send a couple of emails.
It’s been almost 20 years to the day of my conviction and I can’t express how good this feels. Thank you to ASCOL for all of the great information and for fighting so hard for our rights.
I’m not sure the relevance of this post to ACSOL, but I wanted to post something intriguing.
Ever since the Epstein list has been being circulated, Meghan Walsh (Yes, John Walsh’s own daughter) has been going crazy posting on Twitter about how her dad is a major part of the trafficking problem, along with CPS being a front to traffic. How he abused and enabled sex abuse with her and her brother. She did a conference not too long ago and donated all of the proceeds to W.A.R.
If she digs up enough proof on Walsh, wouldn’t that be an immediate repeal of the Walsh Act? Just thought people should know she is fighting for us and the kids. Thanks.
Happy New Year Everyone! There are two issues I am hoping will be addressed by ACSOL at some point since we are now in 2024, and I am hopeful that it will be a good year. Number one is the issue with the 1203.4 or 1203.425 (new law). A 1203.4 lets the person withdraw their guilty plea and have their offense set aside/ expunged. With that, there is no longer a conviction except for certain scenarios such as being used as a prior should there be another offense. Also, with an FBI live scan (which is required for a State License), the report will show the offense, but it also HAS to show that it was dismissed. The new law 1203.425 (or 1203.4) both state that once an expungement is granted, information about the conviction can no longer be disseminated to anyone except a criminal agency or the person whose expungement was granted. Since Megan’s Law does not fall in either category, they should not be allowed to disseminate the person’t conviction, especially since they don’t also show that the conviction was dismissed. This is a complete misuse of the law. The 2nd issue I have been pressing is this case from New Jersey that covers retroactive application of Megan’s Law. In this case, the registrant was able to apply for removal from the registry prior to a new law being enacted. With the new law, they are no longer able to request this removal. This case sides with the registrant in that this new law should not apply to him since he was able to petition for removal prior to the new law and it should not be applied retroactively. We in California are in the same position with the new Tiered Registry Law SB384. Prior to the new law, my fiance was eligible to get a COR (Certificate of Rehabilitation) after being offense free for 7 years (some offenses require 10 years). We were a few weeks shy of being able to file the COR and then the new law came into effect. An attorney thought we would not have enough time to file since it was weeks before the new law was due to take effect . Now, with the new law, the COR will no longer relieve you of the duty to register when before the new law it did. This has to have merit as the new law put a more stringent burden on my fiance than prior the new law. He went from being eligible for a COR and ultimately being removed from the registry to Tier 3 with full address disclosure. If this is not retroactive application of Megan’s Law, I don’t know what is. I am hoping that ACSOL or any attorneys reading these posts could chime in. Here is the link to the New Jersey case
I need to understand the difference between a single conviction and multiple convictions such as this.
“A person with a single conviction for a sex offense is required to register annually for 15 years after the date of unconditional discharge”
This is for Alaska. If I have a one time event for things that happened in the same event and was charged and sentenced to more than one thing. Does that mean a different thing than a single conviction?
Did the registry help LE ID and catch the former … teacher (in a position of trust) … who has been charged with multiple counts of child sex abuse … ? Nope. Former student did. … Validates stats once again of those in a position of trust.
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I read an news article that included the following:
“[name removed] is charged with one count of involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, one count of rape by forcible compulsion, two counts of sexual assault, one count of indecent assault with forcible compulsion and one count of indecent assault without consent, according to court documents.”
🫨 Good golly! How many different charges can be applied to one event??! 😳
I suppose they could have kept going. 🤔 “SA in the presence of an electronic device”, “SA within an occupied residential dwelling”, etc, etc, etc….
I’m not trying to be flippant.
It just strikes me as bizarrely excessive to have so many variations of “rape” in a State’s penal statutes. 🤷🏻♂️
Yesterday, in my court mandated “treatment” class, the facilitator was asked his view on the registry and I was surprised to learn that he believes the registry needs an overhaul and would like to see treatment facilitators have a seat at the table when policies are put in place.
One guy mentioned the statistic in which someone who has committed a crime, who has been crime free for (10? 15? 20? Years) is on the same level as someone who never has. He rejected this stat because “there will always be a risk there” and equated it to car insurance companies charging more for young men verses old men. Thoughts?
If a law makes no distinction as to what types of …[PFR] a law applies must it be assumed it applies to all …[People Forced to Register], even ones no longer required to register? Say for instance …[PFR] are prohibited from public housing, does your removal from the registry have any actual effect on this restriction? Or …[PFR] are not allowed within 1000 feet of a school, does this mean that even after you are removed from the registry you could be charged with this crime? Yes it does. Don’t let down your guard when you get your 25 or 10 year papers.
So my question is has anyone made the case that being required to register and all it entails, even after you’ve completed your statutory duration, is unconstitutional? After 28 years of living hell, I received my “termination paper” it was of little relief or effect because I am unable to ascertain with certainty how SORNA still applies to me. This in and of itself tends to prove SORNA is invalid, (or perhaps I am) for vagueness. how are we supposed to follow the law if they are so convoluted and complex that even entire teams of lawyers are incapable of giving a definitive answer?
Based on the way the Supreme Court will rule, we definitely will know if SORNA has any teeth left to pre-2006 cases. Chevron was disposed of in Esquivel-Quintana v Sessions. In Oral Argument , the attorneys argued that without congress injecting their language in the law giving the Attorney General rule making powers , they would be stripped of applying SORNA pre-1995.
Copying Jan’s complaint, the Manhattan District judge ruled that my case may stay in Manhattan.
Does the pending fishing case, make Janice’s case moot? Or is the problem capable of repetition?
Given the circumstances around SMART officials publishing their findings on states that are currently in compliance with SORNA, I would think:
Smart Office has made notable progress in pushing its LGBQ agenda by regulating the way heterosexuals can carry out their sexual relationships via Sexual Offenders Registry.
Heterosexuals are 95% more likely than LGBQT individuals to suffer a second conviction.
Take for example, Esquivel-Quintana.
8 years later, we’re still seeing SORNA applied to Romeo’s desire to love Juliet.
I don’t care what mental defects you think it is, youthful relationships should never shape the way society deals with people who seek housing, jobs and education opportunities.
85% of 16 year old girls have had sexual encounters before graduation.
It’s never a justification to monster them on a “moving online billboard.”
My first girlfriend was super intelligent.
To say that they are immature says that they don’t need a driver’s license. Not old enough to have sex, you definitely don’t need to be driving a rocket ship down the highway. 💥
The fishing case, will prevail and all of the people pre 2006, would have free rein to give adiós to the government.
Wherever you are at, always get a notary certificate. Registration requirements are location specific. Nope! Wasn’t there buddy!
I don’t know if anyone else has experienced this, but I rec’d an email that subtly suggested that my Registry status was being monitored. It was trying to direct me to a site, but I just spammed the email. I had not received anything like this until I had posted a comment here.
I am curious how secure our emails are when posting here. If the moderators could answer that for me, [MODERATOR RESPONSE: ACSOL TREATS EVERYONE’S EMAIL ADDRESS WITH HIGH SECURITY AND IS NEVER SHARED WITH OTHER ORGANIZATIONS OR PEOPLE. ACSOL WOULD NEVER SEND YOUR ADDRESS TO WHOEVER SENT YOU THAT EMAIL. THERE ARE MANY SCAMS AND SCARE TACTICS USED TOWARD REGISTRANTS]
thx.
Seemingly Unconstitutional & Otherwise Wrongful Conditions Unilaterally Imposed by Parole Agent on Sex Offender Recently Granted Parole More Than 30 Years After Commitment Offenses.
My CDCR/DAPO parole agent is telling me the following:
1. That I’m prohibited from all social media sites even though the crimes I committed more than 30 years ago had absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with computers, the internet, or social media;
2. That I’m prohibited from using any app or search engine to look for anyone from my past whom I might like to try renewing communication with if possible;
3. That I’m prohibited from emailing the message that is attached hereto in doc1.txt to anyone except “public figures” who don’t know me and with whom I have never previously had any interaction;
4. That I’m prohibited from sending the message that is attached hereto in doc2.txt to any of the more than 1,100 people who supported an online petition for me called “Clemency or Parole for Eric Knapp” (at https://www.thepetitionsite.com/709/965/499/clemency-or-parole-for-eric-knapp/); and
5. The GoFundMe page that [MODERATOR’S NOTE: REMINDER TO EVERYONE THAT FUNDRAISING/MONEY/ETC. IS NOT ALLOWED ON ACSOL’S WEBSITE].
Has anyone ever looked into the status crime doctrine? You could argue the registry is nothing more than the status of your past conviction and you have a lot of FTR charges that’s is a status crime not a conduct crime. Does anyone think that this homeless case might help define when a status crime becomes a conduct crime.
If this Grant Pass case is an 8th Amendment issue what does it take to qualify as a “status” we have no control of our circumstance just like the homeless are arguing.
https://www.swlaw.edu/sites/default/files/2021-02/50SwLRev151.pdf
I can’t remember if I saw it here or on /r/sexoffendersupport, but I find this community much more knowledgable and helpful so figured I’d start here first.
Has anyone experienced negative consequences with banking/investing firms as a result of your conviction and/or registry status? I think I saw negative experiences somewhere awhile back for Fidelity and Chase among others. Chase is important to me along with Amex for credit card sign up bonuses and rewards points earned from purchases. Been doing that for 11 years and it has allowed me some amazing flights and hotel stays I would never have afforded otherwise. Really don’t want to lose my ability to open new accounts with them. But afraid to apply for new accounts as I don’t want to raise any red flags.
Fidelity is pretty much where all of my retirement and post-tax invesments are. I suppose everything could be transferred to Schwab which I don’t think I saw many negative datapoints on, but that’s a hassle I’d rather not undertake.
If you have had bad experiences with any banks/investment firms, do you know if it was related to a felony conviction or registry status? I wasn’t required to register in my state, but should according to SORNA guidelines.